Re: [PATCH] rand.c updates from FreeBSD RELENG_5

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:What problems?  I did a grep for /dev/random on 4.x and only came up
:with a couple of uses in contrib/.
:
:>     I think we should simply use /dev/urandom here,
:>     which is guarenteed not to block and will certainly produce a
:>     random enough seed for rand's tiny little seed.
:
:/dev/random is non-blocking in FreeBSD 5.x since it uses a different,
:non-blocking algorithm.
:
:Kris

    Search the FBSD mail archives for the subject line '/dev/random'.  There
    have been several threads.   Most recently, a newfs after booting into
    single user would lock up until enough randomness existed for its
    inode seeding.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>