pgsql: Fix typo in pg_srand48 (srand48 in older branches). - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Fix typo in pg_srand48 (srand48 in older branches).
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Msg-id E1Qzwfb-0006CB-Uc@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix typo in pg_srand48 (srand48 in older branches).

">" should be ">>".  This typo results in failure to use all of the bits
of the provided seed.

This might rise to the level of a security bug if we were relying on
srand48 for any security-critical purposes, but we are not --- in fact,
it's not used at all unless the platform lacks srandom(), which is
improbable.  Even on such a platform the exposure seems minimal.

Reported privately by Andres Freund.

Branch
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REL9_0_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0962182f01c1e29417b016a82c7947697daba82b

Modified Files
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src/port/erand48.c |    2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


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