On Sat, 24 Jul 2010, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 03:08:29PM +0200, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 09:20:09AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > OTOH, I have nothing against adding support for this feature to rng-tools > > > itself, which looks like a simple way to solve both problems. > > This would also be fine for me :) > > btw. if you set /sys/devices/virtual/misc/hw_random/rng_current make > sure to use echo -n, echo is not sufficient.
This is a kernel bug. It means subpar sysfs handling. You're supposed to skip all spaces before AND after, not require \n, and error out with EINVAL if there is left over crap after parsing. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org