Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 13:51:21 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <20001021135121.A12301@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <200010201741.KAA87475@freefall.freebsd.org>; from jkh@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 10:41:46AM -0700 References: <200010201741.KAA87475@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 10:41:46AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > jkh 2000/10/20 10:41:46 PDT > > Modified files: > etc rc > Log: > Redirect the stderr of dd to /dev/null so the user doesn't see rather > weird dd output on bootup as /dev/random is being reseeded. Also, > can't this happen in the background since /dev/random blocks? I am not sure if spawning dd to seed /dev/random in the background is a nice idea. We would have to check every program that is used during the bootup procedure to make sure that they don't use /dev/random or at least make sure that seeding will be finished by the time booting has finished. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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