Roberto A. Foglietta wrote in <cajgkyo64t0r+zyym1dbj2e7-zufaj8-6wd3sutazy8ekk2u...@mail.gmail.com>: |On Thu, 21 Sept 2023 at 20:05, Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]> wrote: |>|IMHO, I vote for /sys rather than /proc/debug. The capability to
There already _is_ a debugfs interface? This must be new then. I do not have debugfs no more, it is of no use for me. Sorry if i have missed anything. ... |>|directly handle the system entropy pool should be an Admin privilege ... |> Access to the pool will never happen again i bet. | |Well, not by /dev/random or by /dev/urandom for a matter of |back-compatibility and I agree on this. Breaking well established |interfaces is not a good policy especially when an alternative is |possible. There was a pool access ioctl that was removed. Must i comment? I have no problem with that, even though one could say "i have a very good entropy generator" and wants to stir the pool her/himself. Direct I/O and even mapping of physical pages in userspace is possible / discussed, so why that not? Concurrent unlocked messing via binary ops surely improves the randomness (:-} ... |but quite cheap. At least for everyone that can pay for a top-gamma |smartphone ($1000-$2000) and with the same money can enter into HP |computing. Even the newest fairphone is only 70% fair iirc. No. Like the wonderful Zarah Leander sang in "Nur nicht aus Liebe weinen" (badly: [anything, but] not crying due to love): the answer is always renunciation. (That was, granted, under the Nazi regime.) (And, it counteracts a bit with Hans Albers, "Hoppla! Jetzt komm' ich", maybe.) But now clear the streets, for me! --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) _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
