[ROS] The perils of security tools

[Ben Laurie]

Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Ben Laurie:
> 
>> I must confess that I said that because I did not have the energy to
>> figure out the other routes to adding entropy, such as adding an int
>> (e.g. a PID, which I'm told still makes it in there).
> 
> The PID dependency is there because of the need for fork
> support--obviously, the PRNG must return a different key stream in the
> parent and child process, but the two cannot communicate with each
> other.

I'm fully aware why its there! I just wasn't sure (at the time) that 
this change didn't also remove it.

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