Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:26:14 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Robert Watson <rwatson@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: <200101140026.f0E0QEQ86706@mobile.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <200101140007.f0E07G336509@earth.backplane.com>
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Matt Dillon wrote: > > : > :Matt Dillon wrote: > : > :> If we are going to have to wait, then please commit a stopgap > : > : That stopgap was committed 10/27/00 in the form of the NOBLOCKRANDOM > :kernel config option which is the default in GENERIC. With this option > :enabled you will guarantee that /dev/random never blocks, including at boot > :time. > > That is not an appropriate stopgap. It fixes NOBODY who config's up > custom kernels unless they know about the option and hack up their > configs. Forcing people to hack up their configs is not a stopgap. Did you hack up your custom kernel config to add 'options DEVRANDOM'? Obviously you found out about that option somehow, so the same process should lead you to the NOBLOCKRANDOM option. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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