On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 01:05:30PM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:15:59PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > > > For instance, do you really need to write hurd servers in different > > languages? > > How useful/suitable would a server written in "perl" be? These are the kind > > of questions one should consider before writing a big amount of code. Such > > effort would require some justification of the benefits before doing so. > > Very - I want to adapt the Entropy Gathering Daemon to use the perl > TrivFS stuff to provide /dev/random and /dev/urandom on Hurd.
I have a different plan, ripping of the entropy pool mixer from gnupg into an entropy server. egd can then just write its data into /servers/entropy (as can any other program that thinks it produces some entropy). I am currently discussing the details with Werner Koch, and will follo wup with a proposal soon, followed by an implementation if everything goes well. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
