From owner-cvs-all Sat Oct 21 4:35: 8 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF6D537B479; Sat, 21 Oct 2000 04:35:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b054.otenet.gr [195.167.121.182]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e9LBVhT24046; Sat, 21 Oct 2000 14:31:43 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id e9LApLZ12442; Sat, 21 Oct 2000 13:51:21 +0300 (EEST) Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 13:51:21 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <20001021135121.A12301@hades.hell.gr> References: <200010201741.KAA87475@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200010201741.KAA87475@freefall.freebsd.org>; from jkh@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 10:41:46AM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 10:41:46AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > jkh 2000/10/20 10:41:46 PDT > > Modified files: > etc rc > Log: > Redirect the stderr of dd to /dev/null so the user doesn't see rather > weird dd output on bootup as /dev/random is being reseeded. Also, > can't this happen in the background since /dev/random blocks? I am not sure if spawning dd to seed /dev/random in the background is a nice idea. We would have to check every program that is used during the bootup procedure to make sure that they don't use /dev/random or at least make sure that seeding will be finished by the time booting has finished. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message