#540 [Patch] Make Expat build on CloudABI

[Ed Schouten]

Hi there,

Some time ago I ported Expat over to a new platform: CloudABI. CloudABI is a UNIX-like runtime environment that uses capability-based security. All of Expat seems to build, except for a single call to getpid(). There is no support for accessing process tables in CloudABI.

it seems that Expat is only calling getpid() to obtain 'random' numbers. Attached is a patch to make this use arc4random_buf() instead, which provides high-quality random numbers. It would be nice if this patch could be integrated.

Thanks,
Ed Schouten

[Sebastian Pipping]

Hello Ed,

thanks for you patch, I pushed it a minute ago.

I like that arc4random_buf doesn't need initialization. I still want something like that for all supported platforms, so if that's interesing to you, more patches and collaboration are welcome.

Best, Sebastian