Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] frandom - fast random generator module | Date | 21 Oct 2003 18:04:43 -0700 |
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Followup to: <bn4bav$ji4$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com> By author: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > As noted, I do get around that... some care needs to be taken calling > random number generators from threads, since some have internal storage > in addition to the seed which can be provided by the caller. >
You can also put your stuff in Thread Local Storage.
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