Re: zap stats and ioctl from rnd

2010-11-22 Thread Damien Miller
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Ted Unangst wrote: > is any of this useful? has anybody ever manually stirred the random > device or tried interpreting the nonsense spit out by sysctl > kern.random? yes and yes

Re: zap stats and ioctl from rnd

2010-11-21 Thread Theo de Raadt
> On 11/22/10 01:16, Ted Unangst wrote: > > is any of this useful? has anybody ever manually stirred the random > > device or tried interpreting the nonsense spit out by sysctl > > We stir it in the installer, FWIW. Using the xxxwrite() entry point.

Re: zap stats and ioctl from rnd

2010-11-21 Thread Alexander Hall
On 11/22/10 01:35, Alexander Hall wrote: > On 11/22/10 01:16, Ted Unangst wrote: >> is any of this useful? has anybody ever manually stirred the random >> device or tried interpreting the nonsense spit out by sysctl > > We stir it in the installer, FWIW. Hmmm... For my definition of "stirr", w

Re: zap stats and ioctl from rnd

2010-11-21 Thread Alexander Hall
On 11/22/10 01:16, Ted Unangst wrote: > is any of this useful? has anybody ever manually stirred the random > device or tried interpreting the nonsense spit out by sysctl We stir it in the installer, FWIW.

zap stats and ioctl from rnd

2010-11-21 Thread Ted Unangst
is any of this useful? has anybody ever manually stirred the random device or tried interpreting the nonsense spit out by sysctl kern.random? [this would also delete the rndioctl.h header entirely.] Index: dev/rnd.c === RCS file: