[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#503768: /etc/init.d/urandom: Should treat POOLSIZE=0 as flag to not save/restore entropy

Josh Triplett josh at freedesktop.org
Tue Oct 28 08:25:02 UTC 2008


Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-61
Severity: wishlist
File: /etc/init.d/urandom

urandom should have some kind of flag to disable the saving and
restoring of entropy.  How about using POOLSIZE=0 as that flag?

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils                  2.30        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  e2fsprogs                    1.41.3-1    ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii  libc6                        2.7-15      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-20      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                        2.13.1.1-1  Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysvinit-utils               2.86.ds1-61 System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  psmisc                        22.6-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

initscripts suggests no packages.

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