Bug#911043: On starting (and stopping) rngd

[Thorsten Glaser]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh dixit:

>On Tue, Nov 10, 2020, at 16:05, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>> So we additionally have the case where the character device
>> exists but is not usable… oh my.
>
>This was common enough that rngd should know about it and bail out with
>an error if it doesn't get proper random numbers from its input during

It does, yes.

>So you'd start it and it will bail up sometime later because the
>entropy source is unfit for use. On systemd you should watch that and
>don't restart it aggressively or you'll waste one cpu core worth of
>busywork in the worst case. Best case it sleeps.

Right.

Way too complex to do this before the freeze, sorry. But at least
I’ll fix the situation with having three packages…

Thanks,
//mirabilos
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