[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh] > I'm looking at the kernel code for random.c right now. To me it looks like > we can just drop the test for file size. When (and why) did we add it? Was > it in response to some particular security concern?
Looking at the changelog, it was introduced in 2005 to fix #267935. If it is not needed any more, lets drop it. I very much welcome help with writing a patch for this to get init.d/urandom moved earlier in the boot. Can you write a patch based on your insight with random.c? Will it affect kFreeBSD and Hurd? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
