[Pkg-gnutls-maint] Bug#412408: Is invoking exit(2) in a library the right thing to do?

[Richard Laager]

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 11:02 +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu,  1 Nov 2007 16:13, rlaager at wiktel.com said:
> 
> > This is causing a problem for Pidgin as well. [0] If there's no entropy
> > device, then you can't use GnuTLS. However, that shouldn't prevent you
> 
> There is a serious problem on your system if gnutls and thus libgcrypt
> are available but the system has latter been changed to remove the
> entropy source (/dev/random in most cases).  That is as serious as a
> missing /dev/null.  The presence of /dev/random is not a runtime
> configurable option on Linux.

The ticket in question talks about support a variety of Unix-like
operating systems, not just Linux. I'm not sure if that changes the
situation at all.

Richard
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