From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 12 8:40: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9370637B400; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:39:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0CGdjs81328; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:39:45 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200101121639.f0CGdjs81328@harmony.village.org> To: Maxim Sobolev 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 Cc: current@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Jan 2001 12:14:43 +0200." <3A5ED913.6B09A21F@FreeBSD.org> References: <3A5ED913.6B09A21F@FreeBSD.org> <200101120644.f0C6hvI12630@gratis.grondar.za> <200101120534.f0C5YYH96390@earth.backplane.com> <200101120652.f0C6qls78578@harmony.village.org> <200101120711.f0C7B4Y97991@earth.backplane.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:39:44 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3A5ED913.6B09A21F@FreeBSD.org> Maxim Sobolev writes: : 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. Why not to add sysctl to switch between blocking/non-blocking : behaviour (defaulting to non-blocking), so our startup scripts would : be able to switch /dev/random to be secure at the point when it's : safe to do (all f/s mounted) much like it copes with : kern.securelevel. Additionaly it would solve the problem that you : are not able to use almost anything in single-user mode (less, vi, : ee etc) w/o feeding /dev/random by hand first. That's why I had the first write clause in my statement. The act of seeing it, which writes to /dev/random, would be enough. No need to make it more complex than it has to be. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message