Re: update-alternatives and /dev/random

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Guillem Jover, le Sat 19 Nov 2011 04:07:48 +0100, a écrit :
> > (b) Recursive grep through /etc/ on hurd would fail with the error message
> >       "Resource lost"
> >     while on Debian/Linux it would succeed (at least it did on my box).
> 
> That's because something went wrong on the upgrade from the random-egd
> to the random-hurd switch. Check with showtrans what /dev/{u,}random
> and /dev/{u,}random-hurd are set to.

Well, even if the /etc/alternatives/u?random link was correct, we'd get
a bad result: rgrep foo /etc will stumble on it, keeping grepping in
random data until it finds "foo" in there.

So this needs more thought.

Samuel