Ian Lepore <i...@freebsd.org> writes: > Why is the file even in the root filesystem? /var/db seems to be the > right place for a transient file needed by the system.
We've had both /entropy and /var/db/entropy for years. The former is created by /etc/rc.d/random during shutdown (and as of a few days ago by the installer), while the latter is maintained by a cron job. The only thing that's new here is that Mark added code to read /entropy from the kernel so we can get it as early as possible. I was uncomfortable with it - especially the part that *writes* it from the kernel - so we hid it behind an off-by-default option until we can figure out what we really want to do about it. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
