In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maxim Sobolev writes: : I like this idea, but perhaps it would be nice to have more : fine-grained control over when /dev/random is blocking and when : not. Why not to add sysctl to switch between blocking/non-blocking : behaviour (defaulting to non-blocking), so our startup scripts would : be able to switch /dev/random to be secure at the point when it's : safe to do (all f/s mounted) much like it copes with : kern.securelevel. Additionaly it would solve the problem that you : are not able to use almost anything in single-user mode (less, vi, : ee etc) w/o feeding /dev/random by hand first. That's why I had the first write clause in my statement. The act of seeing it, which writes to /dev/random, would be enough. No need to make it more complex than it has to be. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
