At 01:02 PM 2/16/2005, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
>But, what if Subversion is sharing APR with other applications? Can
>Subversion just do whatever it wants with APR configuration?
>Sometimes Subversion is linking against an existing APR, not building
>its own.
>(Of course, we could at least change our install instructions to
>stipulate that if one *is* building APR just for Subversion, one
>should configure with "--with-devrandom=/dev/urandom".)
This is an interesting point. IMO the ideal solution would be to
convince the APR people to fix their library, but if memory serves,
the problem is from apr_generate_random_bytes() and only affects
Subversion via the getuuid.c file. If you look at the source code,
writing a custom replacement for apr_uuid_get() is trivially easy and
you could probably improve the implementation.
Cheers,
-Pete
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Received on Wed Feb 16 22:52:26 2005