Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: current multiple heads (was Re: write access to my public server)

[graydon hoare]

Jon Bright wrote:

> We have lots of servers at a remote location that we develop on via 
> VPN/SSH.  These machines don't have keyboards, mice or monitors but 
> would be liable to see quite a lot of "monotone bump".... they do get 
> some entropy from HDs, network latency and so forth, I imagine, but 
> they're otherwise fairly starved.

ah, I see.

> GUID generation is flexible in this respect - it can be generated with 
> reference to factors such as time, MAC address and so forth, or 
> generated randomly.

ok, how about I make hook_get_nonce(), and if it returns nil or fails, 
we'll use the autoseeded prng (which is itself subject to the hook 
condition of accessing blocking or non-blocking system prngs). fair enough?

-graydon