Re: [Re: [RNDGETENTCNT ioctl]]

[Marco Colombo <marco@esi.it>]

On 8 Feb 2002, Eric wrote:

> Marco Colombo <marco@esi.it> wrote:
> 
> > I'm pretty willing to grab another tree and compile it, 
> > but I'd like to know which one in advance instead of going 
> > on by trial & error. The system is Red Hat 6.2 so I need a 
> > 2.2.x kernel.
> 
> As DaveM mentioned, that was a patch against the 2.4.x series
> but the patch is remarkably similar for the 2.2.x kernels.  
> This is against the linux_2_2 branch of CVS at vger.samba.org.
> If this does not patch cleanly into your RedHat sources, I am
> certain a little initiative will get you the rest of the way:

Eric, patching is no problem B-)
that's what I was meaning with my first message.

Now, I've discovered that my Ultra 1 has a very low entropy bits count,
as I was suspecting (it's an "headless" server, only network and disk
I/O). I guess I need an entropy source of some kind, but this is
a story for another list. B-)
I'll look closer at the code to try and understand the issues of 32->64bit
conversion. Before running an entropy collector daemon, I need the 
others 'R' ioctls (RNDADDENTROPY as a minumum). Some of them do take 
int * as the third argument, so I guess I need some hacking. If I manage
to produce an useful patch, I'll post it.

Thanks for your support.

.TM.
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