Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:15:13 +0100 From: Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dev/random Message-ID: <200404140715.i3E7FDIn006488@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Apr 2004 22:22:18 PDT." <20040414052218.GA21361@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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Brooks Davis writes: > > Sounds like a tunable is called for that can be turned on in that > > environment, and possible a console warning if the system is stalled >1 > > second during boot waiting on entropy... > > I like the idea of a console warning on blocked reads of /dev/random. So do I. I've added it to my TODO. > One issue we hit recently is that we don't enable any of the harvesters > until initrandom is run. We may want to enable them by default and have > initrandom disable them based on rc.conf settings rather then the other > way around. I also like this idea. Also added to TODO. M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH
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