Am Freitag, 21. Oktober 2016, 13:56:33 CEST schrieb Theodore Ts'o: Hi Theodore, > > Although I this is not related to the man page, please note that I have > > tried this approach during the development of my LRNG. systemd did not > > like that at all. The system did not come up, even though there was only > > 0.5 seconds it would need to wait until getrandom would unblock during my > > tests. > > Although I'd argue this is a systemd bug, to be fair to systemd, when > I briefly tried this approach, the zero day kernel testing system, let > me know than an older version of Ubuntu (which wasn't using systemd), > and CeroWrt (which also doesn't use systemd) were also hanging. > > I haven't checked to see if that was because Cerowrt was trying to do > something security sensitive such as creating ssh host keys. I've > been too busy, and I was afriad the result would be too depressing.... > Besides, I don't use Cerowrt thes days, since I'm using Google OnHub > now. :-) I will dig into that matter a bit further as I need an answer for this behavior for other purposes. When I find the cause, I will report it. Ciao Stephan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
