I've seen that happen with kernel version 2.2.16!
> Hi,
>
> It looks like the random driver in 2.4test will return a
> short read, rather than blocking. This is breaking vpnd
> (http://sunsite.dk/vpnd/) which breaks with "failed to
> gather random data" or similar.
>
> Here's a sample strace:
>
> open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY) = 3
> read(3, "q\321Nu\204\251^\234i\254\350\370\363\"\305\366R\2708V"..., 72) = 29
> close(3) = 0
>
> Have the semantics of the device changed, or is vpnd doing
> something wrong?
>
> Matthew.
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: vpnd-unsubscribe@sunsite.auc.dk
> For additional commands, e-mail: vpnd-help@sunsite.auc.dk
>
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Dec 07 2000 - 21:00:08 EST