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

James Andrewartha trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Thu Nov 15 14:55:45 UTC 2007


On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Marco d'Itri wrote:

> On Nov 15, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
>
>> So the fix should be pretty easy:
>>
>> M random   c  1 8
>> M urandom  c  1 9
> I oppose this "solution", the only devices which *must* be created
> statically (and are available in the standard initramfs indeed) are null
> and console.
>
> SSL is not used at this time of the boot process: there is no
> networking, so the query is expected to (gracefully) fail anyway.

There is networking - the machines netboot.

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