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Giant (112 bytes) urandom reads by various programs at boot



With the new rnd/cprng code, this is much less of an issue, but I
worry it is an indicator of some bug elsewhere in the system: at
boot time, some programs attempt to suck 112 bytes each (yes,
that's *bytes*; 896 bits) out of /dev/urandom.

I think this must be caused by the RPC code somehow, since the
two usual culprits are mount_nfs and services_mkdb.  But after
digging through the code a bit, I don't see where this would
happen.

Does anyone else?

-- 
 Thor Lancelot Simon                                          
tls%panix.com@localhost
   But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
 objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp!  You towel!  You
 plate!" and so on.              --Sigmund Freud


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