On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 5:53 AM, David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > That's a great question. Indeed, this platform (AIX) does have > > /dev/random but apparently that too was exhausted because that > > is checked first in our implementation. I think the fault is truly > > with the system in question, because prngd should not have blocked > > in the manner it did. Despite this problem being a one-off, there > > is a push to "fix" the issue and guarantee it will never happen again. > > It was during my investigations that I noticed the blocking nature > > of the EGD lookups. > > So what do you want to do if you run out of entropy? > Fail with an error condition stating that, rather than the indeterminate hang in read() that was experienced. Ben
