Rian Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 11:06, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Derek Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> >> It even seems that there is a patch for GNU Mach to add a entropy >> >> device... >> > >> > There's a patch for OSKit/Mach at: >> > >> > http://www.ddavies.net/oskit-entropy/index.html >> > >> > But OSKit/Mach is basically useless unless you're goal is to fix lots >> > and lots of bugs. On and off (mostly off) I work on porting it back >> > to GNU/Mach 1.x. There's nothing hard about this I just find it hard >> > to keep focused - someone could pretty easily take the patch above and >> > port it. >> >> What I meant is that on that site Rian mentioned, in that tarball >> there is a patch for GNU Mach 1.x... Or isn't this stuff useful? > > Just for kicks i tried out the patch at > http://ibofobi.dk/stuff/hurd-entropy, but it was made against the 2000 > gnumach tree, so it doesn't work exactly well. I think the files would > have to be manually patched to account for the changes since 2000. So it > isn't useful yet, i'll try to get it to work today though because i > think a random device is really important. I do think that a user-space > entropy daemon is a better way to go though, but since it isn't possible > to have a truly competent one under Mach, an in-kernel device is the > best way to go for now.
FYI, this was discussed on the mailinglist. However, I wonder if they are talking about the same thing. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00412.html -- Marco _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
