My Debian system looks normal (only Debian stable/wheezy packages). lsof /dev/random COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME sks 2638 debian-sks 3r CHR 1,8 0t0 1209 /dev/random sks 2639 debian-sks 3r CHR 1,8 0t0 1209 /dev/random
uname -a Linux pgpkeys 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux dpkg-query -l sks ... Name Version Architecture Description +++-===============-==============-============-================================ ii sks 1.1.3-2 amd64 Synchronizing OpenPGP Key Server Arnold On 09/19/2013 07:31 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > hi SKS folks-- > > I was just looking at the behavior of sks 1.1.4, and i noticed that it > seems to have /dev/random open for writing: > > 0 zimmermann:~# lsof /dev/random > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME > sks 742 debian-sks 3w CHR 1,8 0t0 1244 /dev/random > sks 756 debian-sks 3w CHR 1,8 0t0 1244 /dev/random > 0 zimmermann:~# > > this is not read/write (which would be marked as 3u instead of 3w), but > write-only (presumably appending) to the character device. > > I'm not clear on why this is happening. I don't see /dev/random > referenced explicitly in the source. Anyone have any clue about what > it's doing? This is happening for me on debian systems -- can users of > other systems confirm or deny that this is happening for them as well? > > Maybe it's an artifact of one of the ocaml libraries sks depends on? > I'm not sure how i'd debug that to verify it. > > --dkg > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sks-devel mailing list > Sks-devel@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/sks-devel _______________________________________________ Sks-devel mailing list Sks-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/sks-devel