David Laight wrote in <1628d46df2fb4580b474fd0ea43a5...@acums.aculab.com>: |> Fine, then use > (write) to reset the entropy and >> (append) to \ |> add entropy. | |IIRC writing to /dev/urandom doesn't do what you want it to do. |You have to use an ioctl() to actually set entropy.
And that is the sad point about it. Kernel hackers should stand up to allow it again! It wins nothing to only allow this, sorry, grazy lock/ioctl dance unless you have a super-parallel boot sequence, but maybe even then not (as the device below cares, surely it does, not looking). On my (CRUX) distro with SysV style init everything is synchronous during boot/shutdown, and i fail to see the improvement. The kernel should simply agree to have entropy. (This rhymes!!) --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
