On 06/16/2017 05:41 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Hi Lee, > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 11:58 PM, Lee Duncan <lduncan@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> It seems like what you are doing is basically "good", i.e. if there is >> not enough random data, don't use it. But what happens in that case? The >> authentication fails? How does the user know to wait and try again? > > The process just remains in interruptible (kill-able) sleep until > there is enough entropy, so the process doesn't need to do anything. > If the waiting is interrupted by a signal, it returns -ESYSRESTART, > which follows the usual semantics of restartable syscalls. > > Jason > In your testing, how long might a process have to wait? Are we talking seconds? Longer? What about timeouts? Sorry, but your changing something that isn't exactly broken, so I just want to be sure we're not introducing some regression, like clients can't connect the first 5 minutes are a reboot. -- Lee Duncan
