> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 01:17:08AM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>
>> >> $ ls -l /dev/urandom
>> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Feb 19 2008 /dev/urandom ->
>> >> ../devices/pseudo/random@0:urandom
>> >
>> > Which version of SunOS first introduced unconditional support for
>> > /dev/urandom?
>>
>> I don't know what you mean by "unconditional" but the feature was added
>> to
>> Solaris 8 in :
>> Patch-ID# 112439-02
>
> That's conditional on the SunOS patch. The question is which SunOS
> releases *always* have /dev/urandom.
Well, two responses here :
1) that patch is deemed essential and no one, ever, runs without it
2) Solaris 9 provides SSH built in and thus it has a PRNG built
into the kernel. Guess which patch in the Solaris 9 beta
provides that feature? Yep, you guessed it, the one that
applies to Solaris 8 was actually a patch from the Sol 9
dev stage.
Anyways the hard answer is Solaris 9 but in practice Solaris 8.
>> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:35:48AM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> >
>> >> /opt/studio/SOS11/SUNWspro/bin/cc -DNO_CLOSEFROM -DNO_DEV_URANDOM
>> >> -DNO_FUTIMESAT -Dstrcasecmp=fix_strcasecmp
>> >> -Dstrncasecmp=fix_strncasecmp -g -O -I. -I../../include -DSUNOS5 -c
>> >> postconf.c
>> >> "str_table.h", line 46: non-constant initializer involving a cast
>> >> cc: acomp failed for postconf.c
>> >
>> > What do you see on line 46 of str_table.h?
>>
>> $ cat -n str_table.h | head -46 | tail -1
>> 46 VAR_TLS_BUG_TWEAKS, DEF_TLS_BUG_TWEAKS, &var_tls_bug_tweaks, 0,
>> 0,
>
> Well, DEF_TLS_BUG_TWEAKS is defined as the constant expression:
>
> ((TLS_BUG_TWEAK_A TLS_BUG_TWEAK_B)+1)
>
> where TLS_BUG_TWEAK_A and TLS_BUG_TWEAK_B are string literals. In your
> case: "" and " ". So the expression is:
>
> (("" " ") + 1)
>
> which should be the constant pointer to the second (NUL) character of " ".
> Not quite sure why your compiler objects, but I guess the expression
> needs to be simplified. :-(
I could try with GCC but really it *should* compile with baseline Solaris
8 and Sun Studio 11 fully patched.
> Does the patch below solve the problem?
Let me try it and report back shortly !
Did I say thank you? Well people in the open source world need to say it
much more often. Postfix is simply the best and I thank thee from the
bottom of my heart and man .. I mean it !
--
Dennis Clarke
dcla...@opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris
dcla...@blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris
