Re: [PATCH] rand.c updates from FreeBSD RELENG_5
:What problems? I did a grep for /dev/random on 4.x and only came up
:with a couple of uses in contrib/.
:
:> I think we should simply use /dev/urandom here,
:> which is guarenteed not to block and will certainly produce a
:> random enough seed for rand's tiny little seed.
:
:/dev/random is non-blocking in FreeBSD 5.x since it uses a different,
:non-blocking algorithm.
:
:Kris
Search the FBSD mail archives for the subject line '/dev/random'. There
have been several threads. Most recently, a newfs after booting into
single user would lock up until enough randomness existed for its
inode seeding.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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