Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:20:26 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, 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 Message-ID: <200101111920.f0BJKQp72942@earth.backplane.com> References: <8933.979240469@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
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:On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:09:13 PST, Matt Dillon wrote:
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:> This is nonsense. Just fix mount_mfs to not use entropy. newfs needs
:> entropy for NFS exports. MFS filesystems cannot be exported via NFS,
:> and a plain old random number generator will suffice just fine.
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:Where do we get a plain old random number generator while we're waiting
:for the entropy device to seed?
srandom(time(NULL)) + random(), assuming you guys didn't break the
interface (random() is required to produce the same sequence of
random numbers given the same srandom() seed). Plenty sufficient.
Hell, for MFS, a simple incrementing integer is sufficient, or even
a constant.
-Matt
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