Re: RFH: python-crypto: FTBFS on hurd-i386: AssertionError: /dev/urandom produced truncated output (requested 1024, got 600)
Svante Signell, le Mon 16 Jan 2012 21:32:00 +0100, a écrit :
> On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 19:46 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Sebastian Ramacher, le Mon 16 Jan 2012 19:34:58 +0100, a écrit :
> > > Is this a known bug with Hurd's /dev/urandom implementation or does it
> > > behave differently by design?
> >
> > It's a known behavior. It's not by design, the random server just
> > does not have the loop to fill the buffer. AIUI, that behavior is
> > posix-compliant, however.
>
> Can random-egd generate enough bytes for Hurd? If random-egd can coexist
It can not atm, see the TODO list on the Debian wiki. We should probably
rather fix the C random generator, as it poses problem to a few other
daemons.
Samuel
Reply to: