Subject: Re: feature request: root file system change
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Steve Rumble <rumble@ephemeral.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/16/2005 16:18:40
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On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 09:58:35PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> Which reminds me of a question I was asked by a FreeBSD user the other=20
> day: How does NetBSD handle /dev/(u?)random running out of running bits=
=20
> while booting? (Doing cgd things that even before running init seems to=
=20
> ask for that situation... :)

Doesn't urandom never block? In 3.0 cgdconfig has the 'urandomkey'
generation method that takes advantage of this for early
configuration.

Regards,
Steve

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