From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 23:12:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] wrapper: add a helper to generate numbers from a CSPRNG
Message-ID: <YdTUTASUsJg3DJb2@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlezvb2p2.fsf@gitster.g>

On 2022-01-04 at 21:39:37, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Another thought.  As far as I can see on the C code side in the
> later part of the patch, we are prepared to see multiple HAVE_* for
> CSPRNG defined by the builders, and let us choose the best one for
> them.  I wonder if it makes sense to allow
> 
>     make CSPRNG_METHOD='arc4random getentropy'
> 
> as a way to tell us that they have these two and want us to pick the
> best one for them.  
> 
> It does not add much value for human builders, but I suspect that it
> would make it simpler when we need to add autoconf support.  

That shouldn't be a big deal.  I can do that.
-- 
brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA