about summary refs log tree commit diff
path: root/core-services
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJuan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>2015-05-11 16:58:20 +0200
committerJuan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>2015-05-11 16:58:20 +0200
commit4bb1c55f3390bbcb0e11b4ab44299ae06d89b888 (patch)
tree1bd6e48a97d4bc9e43c621a01d614d5ce27f5642 /core-services
parentd111a61fbd67ccf1b29f0707526025440fbf51be (diff)
downloadrunit-void-4bb1c55f3390bbcb0e11b4ab44299ae06d89b888.tar.gz
runit-void-4bb1c55f3390bbcb0e11b4ab44299ae06d89b888.tar.xz
runit-void-4bb1c55f3390bbcb0e11b4ab44299ae06d89b888.zip
Find out size of the saved random-seed via /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize. 20150511.1
This is what the random(4) manual page recommends, and hopefully should improve
entropy reading from /dev/{u,}random.
Diffstat (limited to 'core-services')
-rw-r--r--core-services/05-misc.sh2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/core-services/05-misc.sh b/core-services/05-misc.sh
index db1bf34..8f5c6c5 100644
--- a/core-services/05-misc.sh
+++ b/core-services/05-misc.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 msg "Initializing random seed..."
 cp /var/lib/random-seed /dev/urandom >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
-( umask 077; dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/lib/random-seed count=1 bs=512 >/dev/null 2>&1 )
+( umask 077; bytes=$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize) || bytes=512; dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/lib/random-seed count=1 bs=$bytes >/dev/null 2>&1 )
 
 msg "Setting up loopback interface..."
 ip link set up dev lo