Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 10:57:43 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <81922.972151063@winston.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> of "Sat, 21 Oct 2000 13:51:21 %2B0300." <20001021135121.A12301@hades.hell.gr>
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> 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. But if it blocks until the reseed is finished, what's the problem? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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