Hunting bugs sometimes get you very far away from the problem you started out with...
I wanted to use user-mode-linux to hunt down something that looks like a bug in "openswan". My guest user-mode-linux is Debian-style; it turns out that just *installing* openswan package (creating "plain" key pairs) hung the durned thing. A closer investigation showed that the installation hangs in program "ipsec rsasigkey" reading /dev/random. Now I have studied the driver/char/random.c for a while. It looks as if it works allright, also in user-mode-linux, it just needs to get a unholy lot of what it calls "entropy" to provide the "ipsec rsasigkey" installation with the necessary amount of bits for it to build the keys. Can I somehow speed up this "entropy" process? I don't *really* have in my heart to sit typing in random characters to the console for hours just to satisfy the demands of the "add_keyboard_randomness" function! And I don't want to fiddle with the installation process of Debian openswan; for all I know, my original bug may disappear if I do that, but it will still be there in the physical linux. My guest uml kernel is a modified vanilla (i.e. not Debian-patched) 2.6.9 kernel. Thank you very much in advance. -- Peder Chr. Nørgaard e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gefionsvej 19 spejder-e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DK-8230 Åbyhøj tel: +45 87 44 11 99 Denmark mob: +45 30 91 84 31 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
