[Info-vax] $GETTIM and $GETTIM_PREC on modern systems

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-07-15, Some Dude <dgordonatvsi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, July 8, 2022 at 1:16:24 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>> 
>> It is a shared system pool based on information observable at system 
>> level, or are VSI implementing some per-process hack ? 
>
> It's a VMS adaptation (nearly a complete code lift) of the Fortuna code in FreeBSD.  The V9.2 version works.  V9.x prior to V9.2, the service was there but returned "random-looking" data from the well-named internal hack called fake_entropy.  There will be future refinements. The entropy harvester is the portion of code that most diverges from FreeBSD and the stochastic sources differ somewhat.  As a server-based OS, we don't track mouse movement, for example.
>

Thank you Doug. Nice to see this has made it to VMS.

Simon.

-- 
Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.