Unsafe use of g_random_int()

Daniel Atallah daniel.atallah at gmail.com
Sat Aug 22 13:31:10 EDT 2015


There's no need to keep Windows 2000 support.

On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Michael McConville <mmcconville at mykolab.com
> wrote:

> Eion Robb wrote:
> > Here's a win32 func for you to use instead of /dev/urandom.
> >
> > Technically, we're still building to target win2k (even though our GTK
> > is only XP or higher), but this patch only works on XP or higher.
> > Don't know if that's an issue here, or whether bumping windows version
> > requirements is outside of scope for a minor/micro build.
>
> In regard to dropping it in 2.x.y: I can't imagine there are many win2k
> users, but I don't know whether dropping platform support in
> minors/micros is considered acceptable. Is anyone actually testing on
> win2k? I.e. do we know that it still works?
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