Re: Changes to make /dev/*random better sooner

2014-04-11 Thread David Laight
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 04:14:46PM -0700, Dennis Ferguson wrote: > > On 10 Apr, 2014, at 05:34 , Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 04:36:26PM -0700, Dennis Ferguson wrote: > >> > >> I'd really like to understand what problem is fixed by this. It > >> seems to make the co

Re: Changes to make /dev/*random better sooner

2014-04-11 Thread Taylor R Campbell
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 00:25:32 -0400 From: Thor Lancelot Simon Attached are the changes from the tls-earlyentropy branch, which tries to make the output of /dev/random less predictable -- particularly for an attacker outside the box -- earlier. I intend to merge these soon. Co

Why does the fs_lookup need?

2014-04-11 Thread Ilia Zykov
Hello! Please, help me! I don't understand fundamental thing. And can't find info about this. Acronyms: VFS - VFS/VNODE level and all functions VOP_READ, namei ... RFS - File System level and all functions fs_lookup, fs_read ... LOOKUP() - namei, VOP_LOOKUP ... I don't unders