Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:33:06 -0800
On Wednesday, 24 January 2024 04:22:32 PST Frederick Virchanza Gotham via Std-
Proposals wrote:
> We don't live in a black and white world -- we live in a world of
> uncertainties and probabilities, and we go with that. Some people have a
> psychological reliance on certainty in life. If we have a reliable random
> number generator and it gives us a 128-Bit number, we can use that as a
> magic number to store in the read-only section of an ELF file.
The difference is that now that the pattern has a use, then someone may be
using it for its own purpose. So it may end up in the relocatable read-only
section of the file.
Proposals wrote:
> We don't live in a black and white world -- we live in a world of
> uncertainties and probabilities, and we go with that. Some people have a
> psychological reliance on certainty in life. If we have a reliable random
> number generator and it gives us a 128-Bit number, we can use that as a
> magic number to store in the read-only section of an ELF file.
The difference is that now that the pattern has a use, then someone may be
using it for its own purpose. So it may end up in the relocatable read-only
section of the file.
-- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Software Architect - Intel DCAI Cloud Engineering
Received on 2024-01-25 19:33:09