From owner-cvs-all Fri Jan 12 13: 4:53 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 DDEAE37B400; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:04:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from slave (Studded@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA25033; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:04:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:04:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton X-X-Sender: To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: Mark Murray , , 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 In-Reply-To: <3A5ED913.6B09A21F@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > I like this idea, but perhaps it would be nice to have more fine-grained control > over when /dev/random is blocking and when not. I was totally unclear in some of my previous statements, partly due to my fuzzy recollections and lack of sleep. The yarrow implementation is totally non-blocking, after it is seeded properly. The discussion at hand is how to get it to seed properly before it's first called, and Mark already has a much better solution waiting in the wings, as he described in another thread. Therefore, with any kind of luck we will be dynamiting this whole bikeshed in short order. Doug -- "The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment." -- Theodore H. White Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message