Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > hi SKS folks-- > > I was just looking at the behavior of sks 1.1.4, and i noticed that it > seems to have /dev/random open for writing: > > 0 zimmermann:~# lsof /dev/random > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME > sks 742 debian-sks 3w CHR 1,8 0t0 1244 /dev/random > sks 756 debian-sks 3w CHR 1,8 0t0 1244 /dev/random > 0 zimmermann:~# > > this is not read/write (which would be marked as 3u instead of 3w), but > write-only (presumably appending) to the character device. > > I'm not clear on why this is happening. I don't see /dev/random > referenced explicitly in the source. Anyone have any clue about what > it's doing? This is happening for me on debian systems -- can users of > other systems confirm or deny that this is happening for them as well? > > Maybe it's an artifact of one of the ocaml libraries sks depends on? > I'm not sure how i'd debug that to verify it.
cryptlib?
Just my guess.
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