[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 54167] REGRESSION(r78149): Return value of read() shouldn't be ignored.

Thu Feb 10 00:48:58 PST 2011

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54167

--- Comment #3 from Jarred Nicholls <jarred.nicholls at gmail.com>  2011-02-10 00:48:58 PST ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (From update of attachment 81924 [details])
> Why not just use the CRASH() version in both debug and release?
> 

Yeah I suppose I could.  I don't ever predict /dev/urandom to fail to provide the exact number of requested bytes.  I'll revise.

> A quick web search suggests that reads from /dev/urandom never fails in practice, just possibly degrading quality (not sure if there's a proper spec for this). I'm wondering if one Web page will be able to predict random numbers generated in other pages by exhausting OS randomness first.

Good thought.  May want to hit up the Chromium team who added this :)

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