Bug#343085: exim4: Exim SMTP_AUTH hangs since today...

[Florian Weimer]

* Sven Hartge:

>> According to my tests, it doesn't.  After some discussion with the GNU 
>> TLS developers, I think it does the right thing and reads from 
>> /dev/urandom only.
>
> Are you sure?

Pretty much.  Exim does not read from /dev/random according to strace.

> When the exim on my server blocked due to lack of entropy, I had about 100 
> processes trying to access /dev/random (at least lsof said so).

Which version of Exim 4, GNU TLS and libgcrypt is this?

I'd really like to see an strace, too.