On Wednesday 04 June 2008, mabshoff wrote: > On Jun 4, 3:08 pm, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Well, I have seens the same problem on other Solaris boxen and we do > > > not explicitly just /dev/random, but we do so via GNUTLS. We might > > > patch GNUTLS slightly on Solaris, but up to know it isn't 100% clear > > > to my why this happens. > > Hi, > > > Yeah, patching the random number generation of the SSL package slightly > > ... what could go wrong ... > > Yes, what could go wrong? ;) > > Seriously: What I meant above is that we ought to see on Solaris only > if switching to /dev/urandom as an entropy source does fix the > infinite startup time of the notebook. I had similar problems with the > Sage notebook with the 64 bit OSX version initially due a non-compiled > _ctypes extension, but in that case it failed outright. I am well > aware of the dangers of hacking on the random source for anything, but > I promise that I will use more than PID to seed ;)
Still, make sure you get absolutely crystal clear confirmation from upstream that what you're doing is tolerable. Anything else is not acceptable IMHO. Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _www: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb _jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
