From owner-cvs-all Sat Oct 21 11:17:58 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from eeyore.local.dohd.org (d0030.dtk.chello.nl [213.46.0.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8986237B4C5; Sat, 21 Oct 2000 11:17:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by eeyore.local.dohd.org (Postfix, from userid 1008) id F38CABAB2; Sat, 21 Oct 2000 20:17:45 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 20:17:45 +0200 From: Mark Huizer To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <20001021201745.A21516@dohd.cx> References: <81922.972151063@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <81922.972151063@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 10:57:43AM -0700 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > a nice idea. We would have to check every program that is used during > > the bootup procedure to make sure that they don't use /dev/random or at > > least make sure that seeding will be finished by the time booting has > > finished. > But if it blocks until the reseed is finished, what's the problem? Hmm... that putting the entropy reseeding in background doesn't improve anything if 2 lines later ldconfig, mfs, or whatever sets in and blocks for it? Mark -- Nice testing in little China... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message