Re: uuid generation on linux boxes

[Ben Laurie]

Ian Holsman wrote:

 I have a issue with a linux box not having enough entropy and hanging on
 a call to apr_uuid_get (as it calls /dev/random)
 
 I was wondering why we don't just use /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid
 and use that for our uuid?

Presumably because no-one's made APR aware of it :-)

Cheers,

Ben.

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Re: uuid generation on linux boxes

[C. Michael Pilato]

Ian Holsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I have a issue with a linux box not having enough entropy and hanging
 on a call to apr_uuid_get (as it calls /dev/random)
 
 I was wondering why we don't just use /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid
 and use that for our uuid?

If you are building APR yourself, I believe you can pass
--with-devrandom=/dev/urandom to its configure script to solve this
problem.