Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 13:40:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Adrian Steinmann <ast@marabu.ch> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: dougb@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/79525: entropy_save_sz variable not really being used in save-entropy.sh Message-ID: <200504041140.j34BeXdI068577@nico.marabu.ch> Resent-Message-ID: <200504041150.j34Bo72M021881@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 79525 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: entropy_save_sz variable not really being used in save-entropy.sh >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-i386 >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Apr 04 11:50:07 GMT 2005 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Adrian Steinmann >Release: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE i386 >Organization: Webgroup Consulting AG >Environment: FreeBSD-stable >Description: >System: FreeBSD nico.marabu.ch 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #52: Mon Mar 21 20:44:52 CET 2005 root@nico.marabu.ch:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NIC i386 Description: By chance I noticed that the desired intent of the tunable entropy_save_sz may be missed in the current version of /usr/libexec/save-entropy: --- save-entropy.sh 2001/01/14 07:18:31 1.2 +++ save-entropy.sh 2005/03/23 07:12:37 @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ done dd if=/dev/random of="${entropy_dir}/saved-entropy.1" \ - bs=2048 count=1 2> /dev/null + bs=${entropy_save_sz} count=1 2> /dev/null exit 0 Adrian >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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