[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#587665: wrong PATH in urandom, find is in /usr/bin

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Fri Jul 2 06:44:15 UTC 2010


[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]
> I'm looking at the kernel code for random.c right now.  To me it looks like
> we can just drop the test for file size.  When (and why) did we add it?  Was
> it in response to some particular security concern?

Looking at the changelog, it was introduced in 2005 to fix #267935. If
it is not needed any more, lets drop it.  I very much welcome help
with writing a patch for this to get init.d/urandom moved earlier in
the boot.  Can you write a patch based on your insight with random.c?
Will it affect kFreeBSD and Hurd?

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen





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