Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 19:04:57 -0500 From: Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: When is /dev/random created? Message-ID: <CAHzLAVFJ%2BYAUjEDCvPzhuSYNM9FyhoZ5=M_kLOXwDrEU6bHS0Q@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi all, I was intrigued when I noticed an mfsBSD disk image did not have /dev/random and decided to check the distribution from which the image was installed. dev/ existed only in base.txz and as an empty directory. Does this mean /dev/random is created on boot? /etc/rc.d/random exists as a typical start script, but doesn't appear to test the existent, much less create, /dev/random. Section 5.12, Random Number Generator of the D&I of FreeBSD, while it touched on /dev/random, didn't describe when or how it is created. So, at what point does /dev/random get created when it doesn't exist? -- Take care Rick Miller
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