[ROS] The perils of security tools

[Florian Weimer]

* 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.

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