[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#587665: Bug#587665: wrong PATH in urandom, find is in /usr/bin

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 01 Jul 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Michael Biebl]
> > TBH, I'm not actually sure what all the code in /etc/init.d/urandom
> > is supposed to do and why SAVEDSIZE is necessary at all.
> 
> It is to handle those increasing the pool size in the kernel and make
> the change last across boots.
> 
> > that said, given your code above, I get differing results for this
> > simple example:
> > 
> > $ echo foo > /tmp/bar
> > $ find /tmp/bar -printf %s
> > 4
> > $ ls -s --block-size=1 /tmp/bar | cut -d' ' -f1
> > 4096
> 
> How strange.  When I test it, I get this result:
> 
> % (f=/var/lib/urandom/random-seed; find $f -printf "%s\n"; ls -s --block-size=1 $f|cut -d" " -f1)
> 4096
> 4096
> %
> 
> Perhaps ls round up to the nearest block?  Any other ideas on how to
> fix this with the tools available on /?

If you use -s, it gives you the ALLOCATED size, it is in the manpage.

Given how critical this thing is, I am all for a 1KiB util written in C that
does what is required, instead of relying in "LC_ALL=C ls -l foo", etc.

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