[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#503768: Bug#503768: /etc/init.d/urandom: Should treat POOLSIZE=0 as flag to not save/restore entropy

[Josh Triplett]

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 15:39 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > urandom should have some kind of flag to disable the saving and
> > restoring of entropy.  How about using POOLSIZE=0 as that flag?
> 
> Maybe you should give us a *strong* usercase for doing that, first?

Making Debian work with a read-only root filesystem without manual hacks
to the init scripts.  With this and a few other fixes (such as the one
that prompted bug 503805), I managed to create a bootable Debian USB key
which didn't try to write to itself.

- Josh Triplett

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