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[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Ian Lepore <ian at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Why is the file even in the root filesystem?  /var/db seems to be the
> right place for a transient file needed by the system.

We've had both /entropy and /var/db/entropy for years.  The former is
created by /etc/rc.d/random during shutdown (and as of a few days ago by
the installer), while the latter is maintained by a cron job.  The only
thing that's new here is that Mark added code to read /entropy from the
kernel so we can get it as early as possible.  I was uncomfortable with
it - especially the part that *writes* it from the kernel - so we hid it
behind an off-by-default option until we can figure out what we really
want to do about it.

DES
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