Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:33:55 -0800 From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, 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: <3A5ECF83.581924C8@FreeBSD.org> References: <200101120644.f0C6hvI12630@gratis.grondar.za> <200101120534.f0C5YYH96390@earth.backplane.com> <200101120652.f0C6qls78578@harmony.village.org> <200101120711.f0C7B4Y97991@earth.backplane.com> <3A5EC46D.A912BC6F@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Barton wrote: > IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE TO MOUNT -A RELIABLY BECAUSE /DEV/RANDOM > WOULD BLOCK. It was pointed out to me that I was not sufficiently clear on this point. It was possible that the user had the NOBLOCKRANDOM kernel config option enabled, but we couldn't rely on that. I won't reiterate the rest of the reasons why reading randomness on boot as early as possible is considered desirable. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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