>>>>> Eli Zaretskii writes: > However, my objections were evidently not enough to revert back, although > you agreed with me: > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22202#118 Thanks for the references. Let's revert this change for 25.2 until the stated problem (entropy exhaustion) becomes a real problem, i.e. reported by a user. There is no reason to make everyone pay a 1/2 second startup cost for a theoretical problem, or a code simplification whose benefits are so minor. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2