On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 2:48 PM Eric Biggers wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 12:44:17PM -0700, enh wrote:
> > > now writing to /dev/random not only doesn't credit entropy (so it
> > > still blocks)
>
> It's always been like that, at least back to the earliest git commit in Linux
> history
On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 4:07 AM Rob Landley wrote:
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> Looks like the kernel devs rewrote stuff in 2022 to make it more dependent on
> systemd, and now writing to /dev/random not only doesn't credit entropy (so it
> still blocks) but has an arbitrary delay about even mixing the data in.
>
>
LGTM! Thanks :) .
On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 4:34 AM Rob Landley wrote:
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> On 9/18/23 18:08, Michael Shavit wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 3:57 AM Rob Landley wrote:
> >> +unsigned long long atollu(char *str)
> >> +{
> >> + char *end = str;
> >> + unsigned long long llu = strtoul(str, ,
Wow I have a lot of old reply windows buried under other windows...
On 8/7/23 11:06, enh wrote:
>> P.S. I didn't respond to Elliott's last email about testing because I didn't
>> know what to say. "I want absolutely everything because I have a dedicated
>> staff
>> to weed out false positives"
On 9/18/23 18:08, Michael Shavit wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 3:57 AM Rob Landley wrote:
>> +unsigned long long atollu(char *str)
>> +{
>> + char *end = str;
>> + unsigned long long llu = strtoul(str, , 0);
>
> Sorry I didn't notice this earlier, but hort...@google.com pointed out
> that
Looks like the kernel devs rewrote stuff in 2022 to make it more dependent on
systemd, and now writing to /dev/random not only doesn't credit entropy (so it
still blocks) but has an arbitrary delay about even mixing the data in.
https://lwn.net/Articles/889452/
Apparently busybox copied code
