At Tue, 6 Apr 2021 12:08:54 +0000, Taylor R Campbell <riastr...@netbsd.org> wrote: Subject: Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering > > The main issue that hits people is that the traditional mechanism by > which the OS reports a potential security problem with entropy is for > it to make applications silently hang -- and the issue is getting > worse now that getrandom() is more widely used, e.g. in Python when > you do `import multiprocessing'.
I think adding a uprintf(9) that the user who started the blocked
process (i.e. not just the admin) has a better chance of directly seeing
would be one step closer, and should be extremely easy.
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Greg A. Woods <gwo...@acm.org>
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