>>> "Jason A. Donenfeld" <[email protected]> schrieb am 17.06.2017 um 02:41 in Nachricht <cahmme9ru_h6jq7arjdq1ybyryf1p7nyc4y8tqkzg585u39m...@mail.gmail.com>: > Hi Lee, > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 11:58 PM, Lee Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: >> It seems like what you are doing is basically "good", i.e. if there is >> not enough random data, don't use it. But what happens in that case? The >> authentication fails? How does the user know to wait and try again? > > The process just remains in interruptible (kill-able) sleep until > there is enough entropy, so the process doesn't need to do anything. > If the waiting is interrupted by a signal, it returns -ESYSRESTART, > which follows the usual semantics of restartable syscalls.
There once was a joke like this: "If you are waiting for your computer, hit the control key multiple times. Then the computer will notice that you are impatient and it will process faster..." Actually these days I start to move the mouse impatiently when any application seems to hang (e.g. during boot), and frquently it actually helps, because the application needed random input ;-) Regards, Ulrich > > Jason > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "open-iscsi" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-iscsi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
