On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:29:54AM -0800, George Walsh wrote:
> If this does not help, please check out the manual page of "bind" and see
> what it states for EINVAL. ON HP-UX it says:
> [EINVAL] The socket is already bound to an address,
> the socket has been shut down, addrlen is a
> bad value, or an attempt was made to bind()
> an AF_UNIX socket to an NFS-mounted
> (remote) name.
>
> In UNIXWARE7, the bind man entry for EINVAL reads: "namelen is not the size of
> a valid address for the specified address family"
Hmm, thinking...
Could you send me the following things (private email, no need to bother
the list):
- the bind() manual page of UNIXWARE 7
- the header file /usr/include/sys/types.h and /usr/include/sys/socket.h
(should include the needed information)
- Output of the compilation of PRNGD, especially of prngd.c, if there were
any warnings..
> That's good to hear, but only the smaller part of the wanted functionality
> :-)
>
> But isn't the size of the file controlled by the prngd program itself as
> reported by the debugging function? I understood my task was to provide a
> source from which to reliably build that INITIAL seed?
Yes, and that is ok. But the task of PRNGD is not just to mix this entropy.
The task of PRNGD is to run in the background and allow other programs to
retrieve random data via the socket. So actually the PRNGD you have now does
not accomplish its main task, yet!
> Would it help if I sent you the bind man page as a whole???
Hopefully yes, as indicated above.
Best regards,
Lutz
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