[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] init.d/urandom : random-seed [patches]

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, John Denker wrote:
> So the questino remains 
>  -- Has anything been done about this?  

No...

>  -- Do I need to file bug reports on this myself, or is 
>   there somebody else who would like to take care of it?

Feel free to file a bug, tag it [patch], mention live-cds and embedded so
that you can use severity important, and attach the patches :)

BTW, don't just cat the date into /dev/random.  Cat the entire contents of
the kernel log buffer as well.

HOWEVER one should contact the porters for the arches with other kernels and
get the relevant data from them, nobody around here claimed any knowledge of
how /dev/random in FreeBSD (or The Hurd for that matter) behaves.  Heck, I
don't even KNOW if the initscript runs there or not... :(

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  Henrique Holschuh