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Re:Ruby Bug: SecureRandom should try /dev/urandom first by educar on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @02:57AM (#11626683)
Huh? So you want them to make code changes which is against the man page recommendation? Why have man pages at all then? Do you expect ruby developers to dig into kernel source code and more importantly actually understand what is in there?

If you think they should take the word of 'experts', how does one qualify as an expert? How do you verify that the expert is the one who wrote the blog post or mail etc etc.

The process is already there. Get the change for man page in kernel and user space will follow suit.

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Re:Ruby Bug: SecureRandom should try /dev/urandom first by mordocai on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:15AM (#11628923)
> Do you expect ruby developers to dig into kernel source code and more importantly actually understand what is in there?

Yes. Anyone maintaining and distributing the security related code of a language runtime should understand as much as humanly possible about what is actually going on from the application level all the way down to the hardware.

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