Denys Vlasenko wrote in
<CAK1hOcOZxXmiFVKqJQQBK5ZFaKHzQDkDqH8FO_e9C+yOR=2...@mail.gmail.com>:
...
|Even partial removal of these complicated error paths
|cuts down the size by ~10%
A bit off topic but i personally am still thinking, really, that
people would rather be reenabled to do what they did for long.
ports/core/rc/rc
^e3afe2298e (Johannes Winkelmann 2006-02-23 15:26:10 +0000 80) # Load random
seed
^e3afe2298e (Johannes Winkelmann 2006-02-23 15:26:10 +0000 81) /bin/cat
/var/lib/urandom/seed > /dev/urandom
/ports/core/rc/rc.shutdown
^e3afe2298e (Johannes Winkelmann 2006-02-23 15:26:10 +0000 33) # Save random
seed
^e3afe2298e (Johannes Winkelmann 2006-02-23 15:26:10 +0000 34) /bin/dd
if=/dev/urandom of=/var/lib/urandom/seed count=1 2> /dev/null
It is a young Linux distribution. Maybe they would consider to
use /dev/random instead of /dev/urandom, but fed in noise is fed
in noise in the end.
OpenBSD, just as an example, does in /etc/rc
# Push the old seed into the kernel, create a future seed and create a seed
# file for the boot-loader.
random_seed() {
dd if=/var/db/host.random of=/dev/random bs=65536 count=1 status=none
chmod 600 /var/db/host.random
dd if=/dev/random of=/var/db/host.random bs=65536 count=1 status=none
dd if=/dev/random of=/etc/random.seed bs=512 count=1 status=none
chmod 600 /etc/random.seed
}
Once i had to write entropy-saver.c (i later also had to install
haveged and this still do not understand why, rhetorically) it was
only to undo the mental displacement i encountered when the RNG no
longer became seeded upon system boot on my AlpineLinux VM,
resulting in boot hangs of up to half an hour (due to ssh iirc).
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
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