[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#596479: init.d/urandom : shouldn't write to read-only file /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize

[John Denker]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-61
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Remove code that tried to write to the read-only file /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize
This code was added in 2004 and has never worked.
The underlying driver does not support changing poolsize.
And if it ever did, the filesize of the random.seed would
be a suboptimal way of implementing it.

This is #1 in a group of 5 patches for init.d/urandom.

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Debian Release: 5.0.5
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Architecture: i386 (i586)

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