Bug#412408: Is invoking exit(2) in a library the right thing to do?

Marco d'Itri md at Linux.IT
Sun Apr 13 04:05:43 CEST 2008


On Nov 15, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:

> With this reasoning you may also change Linux to allow /dev/random to be
> a module.  It was conscious decisions, more than a decade ago, to have
> /dev/random *always* available.  Thus it is as important as /dev/null
> and more usefule than console.
If this were true then it would be available in the kernel default
initramfs (scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh).

-- 
ciao,
Marco
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