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

[Sven Hartge]

Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Sven Hartge:
> 
>> Um 09:57 Uhr am 30.01.06 schrieb 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.
>> lsof said otherwise. Besides, if it read its seed from urandom, then it 
>> should not block on a lack of entropy, shouldn't it?
> 
> Okay, sarge indeed uses /dev/random:
> 
> 9576  access("/dev/random", R_OK)       = 0
> 9576  access("/dev/urandom", R_OK)      = 0
> 9576  open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY)     = 8
> 
> I'm going to do a bit of source code archeology to find out why.

So I don't need to rip apart my system to strace exim right now?

Grüße,
Sven.

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