Matt Mackall <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 05:44:37PM +0100, M Macnair wrote:
> > On 29 May 2007 18:58:59 +0200, Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >"M Macnair" <[email protected]> writes:
> > >>
> > >> Many distros ship with an init script that saves and restores the
> > >> entropy pool on startup and shutdown. The bit that interests me that
> > >> is called on startup is (my comments):
> > >> if [ -f $random_seed ]; then
> > >> cat $random_seed >/dev/urandom # should seed the pool
> > >OA
> > >Writing doesn't actually work; to get real accounted entropy for
> > >/dev/random
> > >you need to use a special ioctl. I ran into this problem some years ago
> > >and ended up writing http://www.muc.de/~ak/rndfeed.c
> > >
> > >-Andi
> >
> > If this doesn't work, then it seems to me as though all the
> > debian-esque distros that use equivalents of the above script are
> > wasting their time, and the man page recommending that technique (man
> > 4 random) is also wrong. Is that interpretation correct?
>
> Andi is incorrect. Writing does work and everything you write is mixed
Note I wrote accounted entropy above.
> into the pool. It's just not counted as entropy credit.
This means everything using /dev/random blocks. For me that
includes "does not work".
> This is as intended.
If the intention was to get everybody from stopping /dev/random
and moving them to /dev/urandom I guess it works well. Congratulations.
-Andi
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