On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 11:44 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Bastian Blank a écrit :
> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:47:43AM +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> >>> Now add strace to those commands. Do you see the problem?
> >> Nope, works as expected:
> >
> > You have different libs than we all have. Ours shows:
> > | open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY) = 3
> > | read(3, "\34\344C\242", 4) = 4
> > | close(3) = 0
> >
>
> Note that it is fixed in glibc 2.10 with kernels >= 2.6.29.
It's "fixed" in that Drepper changed the kernel's ELF loader to
initialise the random bytes itself. The entropy pool is still depleted
by every process startup. :-(
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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