hplip needs /dev/random.... ?

[Tom London]

On 6/19/06, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> wrote:
> Tim Waugh wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 11:13 -0700, Tom London wrote:
> >
> >> Printing seemed to work regardless.
> >>
> >> /usr/share/hplip/base/slp.py appears to import random and call
> >> 'random.randint()'
> >>
> >
> > Doesn't seem to require a cryptographically random number here.  In
> > fact, I'm not even sure it needs to be a freshly-random number each
> > time; perhaps '1' is sufficient.  It's just for a transaction ID which
> > is never checked as far as I can tell.
> >
> > Should I patch hplip to use '1' here instead of random.randint() do you
> > think?
> >
> >
> If it is not needed, I would guess yes.
> > Tim.
> > */
> >
>
I would probably 'hack' this by trying to replace this with something
simply derived from, say, the clock, since I didn't check how 'xid' is
derived, and I don't know what would happen with collisions. [Agreed
that this would be just a hack....]

tom
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Tom London