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From: Kinichiro Inoguchi <kinichiro.inoguchi@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 22:12:42 +0900
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Subject: Safeness of arc4random while fork
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
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Hello,

I saw this issue while building LibreSSL on Cygwin64.

I had downloaded LibreSSL tar ball from here.
https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/LibreSSL/libressl-2.5.3.tar.gz
And I tried to build it, build was ok, but 1 regression test failed.

This test is testing the safeness of arc4random() while forking.
With other platforms, linux, *bsd, OSX, MinGW64, this test never fail.

I checked FAQ and ML archives, but couldn't find anything.
Has anyone experienced this already ?
Could someone check the implementation of arc4random functions, please ?

build log:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 testpc001 2.8.0(0.309/5/3) 2017-04-01 20:47 x86_64 Cygwin

$ ./configure
...
checking for poll... yes
checking for socketpair... yes
checking for arc4random... yes
checking for arc4random_buf... yes
checking for arc4random_uniform... yes
checking for explicit_bzero... no
checking for getauxval... no
...

$ make check
...
PASS: aes_wrap.exe
FAIL: arc4randomforktest.sh
PASS: asn1test.exe
...
----------------------------------------------------------------------

I posted this issue to LibreSSL project, too.
https://github.com/libressl-portable/portable/issues/289

Best regards,

Kinichiro Inoguchi

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