On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:58:25 +0300, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:

> Dunno...  Try enabling RND_VERBOSE in sys/dev/rnd.c
> 
> rnd(4) only returns ENXIO if it's not inited or the minor is wrong.

*sigh* stupid me.

revision 1.47
date: 2005/04/15 20:21:23;  author: drochner;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -18
Don't ENXIO on open("/dev/random") if there is not enough
entropy collected. It's undocumented, noone else does it and
it leads to "named" errors during boot for me.
Generally, consumers of "/dev/random" should be prepared to wait.
(The other uses of "rnd_have_entropy" look bogus to me too,
but this needs more consideration.)


And this is not pulled up to 3.0.

SY, Uwe
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