[PATCH 5/5] Do not "rm -f $SAVEDFILE" because that is a Bad Idea when $SAVEDFILE is a symlink. Overwriting the file is quite sufficient.
John Denker
jsd at av8n.com
Sat Sep 11 18:21:19 UTC 2010
---
urandom | 1 -
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/urandom b/urandom
index ac1c06e..08a9fe8 100755
--- a/urandom
+++ b/urandom
@@ -58,7 +58,6 @@ case "$1" in
then
cat "$SAVEDFILE" >/dev/urandom
fi
- rm -f $SAVEDFILE
# Write a new seed into $SAVEDFILE because re-using a seed
# compromises security. Each time we re-seed, we want the
# seed to be as different as possible.
--
1.7.0.4
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