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Date:      Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:04:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc rc.shutdown src/etc/defaults rc.conf
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007171303500.49901-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200007171228.FAA85855@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Mark Murray wrote:

> markm       2000/07/17 05:28:59 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     etc                  rc rc.shutdown 
>     etc/defaults         rc.conf 
>   Log:
>   Add entropy caching. With this, some entropy is cached at shutdown
>   time, and this is used to reseed the random number generator at
>   boot time.
>   
>   NOTE - this has no hope of working if you halt(); you need to
>   execute rc.shutdown to get the entropy stash.

Should this be stashed by the kernel in a swap device, or something?

Kris

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