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Date:      Sat, 21 Oct 2000 18:36:22 -0700
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        Mark Huizer <freebsd@dohd.org>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc 
Message-ID:  <82968.972178582@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Mark Huizer <freebsd@dohd.org>  of "Sat, 21 Oct 2000 20:17:45 %2B0200." <20001021201745.A21516@dohd.cx> 

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> Hmm... that putting the entropy reseeding in background doesn't improve
> anything if 2 lines later ldconfig, mfs, or whatever sets in and blocks
> for it?

Yeah, I should have noted that I wasn't considering this a major
speed-up so much as a simple stylistic point. The amount of actual
time gained would be relatively fractional unless that dd is stuffing
far more data down /dev/random than is needed for sshd or whatever.

- Jordan


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