Re: IPv6?

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 09:42:16PM +0200, Niels Möller wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
> 
> > A GNU Mach char glue code was added by Okuji Yoshinori, with a few bug fixes
> > by me. YOu can get it from alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/marcus/ (actually in a
> > subdirectory of it, I forgot the name of the subdir). You also need
> > streamdev by Okuji.
> 
> The tricky part of /dev/random is to insert the right hooks to get
> *input* to it, hard drive and interrupt timings, etc. Is this provided
> by the glue code? I suspect these hooks make it difficult to write a
> good purely user-space /dev/random.

As the glue code makes the random device a part of gnumach, we could just
add the entropy input calls into gnumach as in linux.

Of course, for a user space driver, this is more difficult. You could have
an entropy device in gnumach, which provides raw entropy to the user space
driver.

Thanks,
Marcus 

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