From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NHIAF-0004Si-06 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:32:43 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NHIAA-0004Ns-Gc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:32:42 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38586 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NHIAA-0004Nj-99 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:32:38 -0500 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:35698) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NHIA9-0000kz-UB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:32:38 -0500 Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:32:34 +0000 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Socket reconnection. Message-ID: <20091206143234.GA22994@shareable.org> References: <4B0DCC45.5080308@collabora.co.uk> <20091127090158.GB15458@shareable.org> <4B15042F.1060101@collabora.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B15042F.1060101@collabora.co.uk> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Ian Molton Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Ian Molton wrote: > Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > I'm a bit puzzled. > > > > Why isn't virtio-rng getting entropy from /dev/random on the host? > > /dev/random may not be available. Understood on a non-Linux host. > Besides, not all entropy comes from /dev/random. On a Linux host, why isn't rngd simply injecting it's entropy into /dev/random where it would be more convenient to access? (No need for socket reconnection code, for example). -- Jamie