Ian Lepore <i...@freebsd.org> writes: > Yeah. I vaguely remember discussion about this something like 12-18 > months ago. As I remember it, there was a desire to avoid using the > same startup saved entropy on a rapid series of reboots and the thinking > was to combat that by generating some fresh saved entropy on each boot.
Sure, but this can be done from cron instead of an rc script (see below). > It seems like that should work if the old saved entropy were stirred > in with the modicum of boot-time entropy before generating a new save > file. That's what happens in random_start(). > I was thinking maybe postrandom should only try to save a new file if > there are some existing files to avoid the possibility of hanging. But > when I look at postrandom more closely, it seems to be generating a save > file, then deleting it along with all the other save files. Umm, yes, I hadn't noticed that (I only reviewed the kernel code). I think we should just remove the fastsaveseed line. Instead, make a @reboot entry for save-entropy in /etc/crontab. 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"
