From 3351b8d007df7da8fb4bbb91033bc4b9819b4585 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Lutz=20J=C3=A4nicke?= Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:45:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update changelog to reflect additional changes made to the egd-locations. --- CHANGES | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index 82555a7a86..d3ef033f32 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -802,9 +802,12 @@ [Geoff Thorpe] +) Add automatic query of EGD sockets in RAND_poll() for the unix variant. - If an EGD or PRNGD is running and enough entropy is returned, automatic - seeding like with /dev/[u]random will be performed. - Positions tried are: /etc/entropy, /var/run/egd-pool. + If /dev/[u]random devices are not available or do not return enough + entropy, EGD style sockets (served by EGD or PRNGD) will automatically + be queried. + The locations /var/run/egd-pool, /dev/egd-pool, /etc/egd-pool, and + /etc/entropy will be queried once each in this sequence, quering stops + when enough entropy was collected without querying more sockets. [Lutz Jaenicke] +) Change the Unix RAND_poll() variant to be able to poll several -- 2.25.1