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To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc 
In-Reply-To: Message from Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> 
   of "Sat, 21 Oct 2000 13:51:21 +0300." <20001021135121.A12301@hades.hell.gr> 
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 10:57:43 -0700
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From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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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


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