> Dennis Clarke: >> >> > 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. > > I can confirm that my Solaris 9 test machine has /dev/urandom. > > In fact, the makedefs script enables /dev/urandom access by default > for Solaris 9 and onwards. > > My Solaris 8 test machine didn't have /dev/urandom, so I guess I > am in the category of "no one, ever" :-) > > Wietse
You're totally in the category of "".. are you crazy?" Patch that box ! -- Dennis Clarke dcla...@opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris dcla...@blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris
