On 09/11/2012 04:20 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 22:46 -0700, David O'Brien wrote: >> >>> -r just changes the sort order, which is probably pointless. >> >> I'm not wedded to "-r", but since you're proposing this to not use "-r", >> which Ian Lepore suggested after instrumenting /etc/rc.d/initrandom and >> looking at the output, please show a diff of two boots with "-r" and >> without "-r" so can see what the change really is. >> > > I observed that the order of displayed processes could differ from one > reboot to the next, even on an embedded system where little else > differed. It seemed to me that a difference in order, while small, > might be significant.
Yes, even small changes that early in the process help with the replay scenario, even if they don't feed a large amount of unique entropy into the device. Doug _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-rc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
