Hello. I have noticed that it is possible on an SMP box for two processes to simultaneously read the same entropy out of /dev/urandom. This doesn't seem right to me. I was using the entropy value to generate a random number to use as a session ID, so occasionally there would be a collision on session IDs, causing a login failure as session IDs are required to be unique. This issue does not appear to be related to entropy depletion.
Could you provide me with some insight into why this is the case, if it is intentional? It seems like it could be addressed with a spinlock. Thanks. -Bob - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
