From owner-cvs-all Sat Jan 13 14:17:44 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from gratis.grondar.za (grouter.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FAB337B400; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 14:17:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from grondar.za (root@gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.133]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0DMH2I21498; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 00:17:05 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <200101132217.f0DMH2I21498@gratis.grondar.za> To: Matt Dillon Cc: Robert Watson , 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: <200101132203.f0DM3R935732@earth.backplane.com> In-Reply-To: <200101132203.f0DM3R935732@earth.backplane.com> ; from Matt Dillon "Sat, 13 Jan 2001 14:03:27 PST." Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 00:17:02 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am now typing my 4th effort at answering this, and I am rather at a loss for words. Exactly what you are so loudly demanding below, is exactly what I offered in my previous mail. WILL YOU PLEASE GET OF MY CASE NOW!!! M > The system had damn well have a reasonable default, regardless of what > is in /etc/rc.conf or /etc/defaults/rc.conf. If you don't put it in, > I will. It is simply not appropriate to commit code that can stall the > system on boot. It is far more important to ensure that that DOES NOT > HAPPEN then it is to be paranoid about cryptographically secure random > numbers. Don't make the defaults ass-backwards, all you will do is > hang up some poor sod who will wind up spending a dozen man hours trying > to figure out why his computer won't boot. > > This bikeshed isn't going to go away until you people screw your heads > on right and make commits that don't create havoc with other developers. > It is NOT NECESSARY do that kind of shit to test your random number device > code. > > -Matt -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message