On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 11:11:01AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 03:22:07PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote: > > > > Just like sh, dhcpcd can start very early .... sometimwes before enough > > entropy has been generated just to pull blindly from /dev/urandom because it > > can block - or did in the past; it might be fixed now. > > No. Reading from /dev/urandom cannot block, and never could unless the > system on which you observed such behavior had a bug.
Linux? I think they used to block until at least some entropy for the initial seeding was around. Joerg
