On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:38:00 -0600 Rebecca Cran wrote: > On a normal boot (not verbose) of -CURRENT from today's sources I'm > getting the following message printed once for each logical CPU: > > > arc4random: no preloaded entropy cache > > > Since other messages, including the same one in random_harvestq.c are > under bootverbose, should this one in arc4random.c be too? > > > I guess another question is _why_ this message is being displayed, > since it looks like it should only happen if an entropy stash > (/entropy?) is missing:
/entropy is the old style file fed into /dev/random from rc.d/random. There's another file /boot/entropy which is read much earlier. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
