Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:29:02 -0400 | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/9] random32: introduce random32_get_bytes() and prandom32_get_bytes() |
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 08:12:39PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote: > >> > >> How about prandom32_get_bytes_state() and prandom32_get_bytes() instead? > > > > I agree with your suggestion. I'll rename them and try again. > > > > By the way, should we also rename the existing random32() and > > prandom32() in the future?
I suppose the other way to go is to just use random32 as the common prefix, and just have random32() and random32_state(). My concern was that people might assume that prandom32() and random32() might imply that only prandom32() was the one using a pseudo-random number generator. This might be easier since there are large number of uses of random32() in the source tree, but only a relative few using prandom32().
- Ted
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