Re:Fixing Getrandom()
by throw0101a on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @11:37AM
(#21137603)
> Which is to say, /var/ is writable when they do it.
They also do it at shutdown, before /var is R/O or unmounted.
One can also have multiple files, and have a regular cron job that replaces one of them occasionally while the system is running. This is what the FreeBSD script does.
They also do it at shutdown, before /var is R/O or unmounted.
One can also have multiple files, and have a regular cron job that replaces one of them occasionally while the system is running. This is what the FreeBSD script does.
* https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/libexec/save-entropy/
* https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/libexec/rc/rc.d/random
Other systems have solved this problem, so I'm not sure why all the high drama with Linux.