From owner-cvs-all Fri Jan 12 1:34:48 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5389837B404; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:34:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from FreeBSD.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA17777; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:33:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3A5ECF83.581924C8@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:33:55 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Dillon , Warner Losh , Mark Murray , Sheldon Hearn , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/libexec Makefile src/libexec/save-entropy Makefile save-entropy.sh References: <200101120644.f0C6hvI12630@gratis.grondar.za> <200101120534.f0C5YYH96390@earth.backplane.com> <200101120652.f0C6qls78578@harmony.village.org> <200101120711.f0C7B4Y97991@earth.backplane.com> <3A5EC46D.A912BC6F@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Barton wrote: > IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE TO MOUNT -A RELIABLY BECAUSE /DEV/RANDOM > WOULD BLOCK. It was pointed out to me that I was not sufficiently clear on this point. It was possible that the user had the NOBLOCKRANDOM kernel config option enabled, but we couldn't rely on that. I won't reiterate the rest of the reasons why reading randomness on boot as early as possible is considered desirable. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message