Why doesn't `systemd-random-seed load` use RNDADDENTROPY ?

[lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lennart Poettering)]

On Sa, 07.07.18 08:23, Colin Walters (walters at verbum.org) wrote:

> Came up in this bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1572944#c44
> 
> As far as I can see it never did, but here the entropy is fully trusted;
> seems like using the ioctl would help avoid some entropy fallout
> from the recent kernel random changes, right?

See the discussion here:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/4513

Lennart

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