Re: RFC: initialize /dev/urandom, is it necessary? Can we do it in a better way?

2023-09-21 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
On Thu, 21 Sept 2023 at 02:35, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > > Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in > <20230919222910.pn44y%stef...@sdaoden.eu>: > |Laurent Bercot wrote in > | : > ||>|IIRC writing to /dev/urandom doesn't do what you want it to do. > ||>|You have to use an ioctl() to actually set entropy. >

Re: syslogd problem

2023-09-21 Thread Jeff Pohlmeyer
On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 11:54 AM Michael Tokarev wrote: > It's been broken for quite some time Thanks, I didn't know about that one. These are actually two different problems, your "read() not blocking" fix, and my "OPT_locallog not in opts" fix. After applying both fixes I was finally able to ge

Support -E in awk

2023-09-21 Thread Philip Prindeville
Hi, We have some scripts written in awk that we'd like to have take flags, but when the script is embedded in a hashbang file (#!/usr/bin/awk -f), then awk ends up consuming any arguments that look like flags, so we're limited in the compatibility we can provide. Looking at editors/awk.c there

Re: RFC: initialize /dev/urandom, is it necessary? Can we do it in a better way?

2023-09-21 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Roberto A. Foglietta wrote in : |On Thu, 21 Sept 2023 at 02:35, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> |> Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in |> <20230919222910.pn44y%stef...@sdaoden.eu>: |>|Laurent Bercot wrote in |>| : |>||>|IIRC writing to /dev/urandom doesn't do what you want it to do. |>||>|You have to u