Alternate egd socket

[Alexander Zimmermann]

Hello,

I'd like to get the entropy from egd within gpg from an alternate socket
path (f.e. /tmp/entropy) on my solaris system, so it's not necessary
that every user starts it's on egd.
Of course I can link $HOME/.gnupg/entropy to /tmp/entropy and this would
work, but it's very annoying to new users of gnupg to first create this
link before starting gnupg.
I've patched the sources to look for an environment variable EGDSOCKET
and connect to it, if it exists. This works, but

1) is this a good approach?
2) is there a better alternative?
3) is it save to only have one egd that all users can use?

Any hints or comments are wellcome.
-- 
Alexander
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