svn commit: r239569 - head/etc/rc.d

[Samuel Ports]

Its useless chink.

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On Sep 14, 2012, at 11:39 PM, Xin Li <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:

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> On 9/14/12 7:18 PM, Samuel Ports wrote:
>> Omg cant an freebsd-entropy be created as mailing list already
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> Nothing prevents you from unsubscribing this mailing list.
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Sep 14, 2012, at 8:09 PM, RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:25:59 +0100 Ben Laurie wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:46 PM, RW
>>>> <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:43:53 +0100 Ben Laurie wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb
>>>>>> <bz at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> 7) send all data to the kernel and hash (arch dependent?)
>>>>>>> it + counter value into the buffer on overflow, as in
>>>>>>> b[n] = H(b[n] + c + i[n]) in the kernel (can control when
>>>>>>> buffer full and only then take action when needed,
>>>>>>> indepedent on how seed data is chosen, uses standard
>>>>>>> technology)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> IMO, this is the only good option.
>>>>>
>>>>> No it isn't. I means that the hashing is unconditional, so
>>>>> anyone that needs a faster boot needs to patch the kernel.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone measured the cost of doing this? Also, if you really
>>>> want to turn it off, we could provide a flag.
>>>
>>> Yes, read the thread.
>>>
>>>>> It has no advantage whatsoever over a minor change to
>>>>> initrandom.
>>>>
>>>> It absolutely has. It applies to all inputs to /dev/random, not
>>>> just those that come from initrandom.
>>>
>>> If the rc script are written correctly it shouldn't matter, there
>>> no need to write to /dev/random after the boot - it wont do
>>> anything useful.
>>>
>>> It has no advantage over hashing the low-grade entropy in
>>> userland which is is just couple of lines difference in a shell
>>> script.
>>>
>>>> Also, should something get to write to it before initrandom,
>>>> initrandom's input would still be used.
>>>
>>> There's no reason to do that, so why do you think it matter?
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