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From: "Sven 'Darkman' Michels" <sven@darkman.de>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] /dev/random oddity
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 14:17:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <405309FE.6020603@darkman.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040313014957.GB13419@speedy.schwinge.homeip.net>

Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> On UML the entropy pool seems never to be refilled - not matter how long
> I keep a key pressed; I don't have a mouse there - so AFAICT /dev/random
> stops working at the time the pool gets empty.

never is wrong, you can 'fill' the pool by doing some work like find /
ps aux etc, but this is really slow in filling up the pool. Maybe
other things should be used to fill the pool, too. Jeff? Blaisor?
anyone? ;)

Regards,
Sven



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  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-13 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-13  1:49 [uml-devel] /dev/random oddity Thomas Schwinge
2004-03-13 13:17 ` Sven 'Darkman' Michels [this message]
2004-03-13 15:12   ` Stephen D. Williams
2004-03-14 22:40     ` Matt Zimmerman
2004-03-15 19:37       ` Jeff Dike
     [not found]         ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403151422320.13832@gradall.private.brainfood.com>
2004-03-15 21:16           ` Jeff Dike
2004-03-18 19:06             ` BlaisorBlade
2004-03-15 19:41   ` Jeff Dike

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