On 6/16/2010 9:14 PM, RW wrote:
> Right, but my question was about why anyone would set the option to
> "off".
>
> On the face of it, it's a pointless option since turning it off either
> does nothing or it makes Apache less secure.
>
I will ask d...@apr if there is any reason they can think of t
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:45:53 -0700
Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Jun 16, 2010, at 5:00 PM, RW wrote:
> > Right, but I'm asking about the "make config" port option, not the
> > configure options to apr itself.
>
> When you enable the option via make config, apr's ./configure gets
> fed the appropriate
On Jun 16, 2010, at 5:00 PM, RW wrote:
> Right, but I'm asking about the "make config" port option, not the configure
> options to apr itself.
When you enable the option via make config, apr's ./configure gets fed the
appropriate flag:
> OPTIONS= ...
> DEVRANDOM "Use /dev/random or compatible
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:07:34 -0700
Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Jun 16, 2010, at 4:01 PM, RW wrote:
> > The devel/apr* ports have an option to use /dev/random, which is on
> > by default.
> >
> > I was wondering under what circumstances anyone would turn that
> > off. As far as I can see switching
On Jun 16, 2010, at 4:01 PM, RW wrote:
> The devel/apr* ports have an option to use /dev/random, which is on by
> default.
>
> I was wondering under what circumstances anyone would turn that off. As
> far as I can see switching it off doesn't replace /dev/random with
> anything else.
On some pla
The devel/apr* ports have an option to use /dev/random, which is on by
default.
I was wondering under what circumstances anyone would turn that off. As
far as I can see switching it off doesn't replace /dev/random with
anything else.
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