From owner-cvs-all Mon Jul 17 13: 4:22 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B873837BDFF; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:04:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA50185; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:04:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:04:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Mark Murray Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc rc.shutdown src/etc/defaults rc.conf In-Reply-To: <200007171228.FAA85855@freefall.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 Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Mark Murray wrote: > markm 2000/07/17 05:28:59 PDT > > Modified files: > etc rc rc.shutdown > etc/defaults rc.conf > Log: > Add entropy caching. With this, some entropy is cached at shutdown > time, and this is used to reseed the random number generator at > boot time. > > NOTE - this has no hope of working if you halt(); you need to > execute rc.shutdown to get the entropy stash. Should this be stashed by the kernel in a swap device, or something? Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message