autofs-5.0.3 - use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random From: Ian Kent It has been reported that some headless systems hang when using /dev/random. It's also been pointed out that /dev/urandom is sufficient for the needs of autofs. --- CHANGELOG | 1 + modules/replicated.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG index be39e33..50c9a27 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG +++ b/CHANGELOG @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ - make mount of multi-mounts wuth a root offset atomic. - add replicated server selection debug logging. - update replicated server selection documentation. +- use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random. 14/01/2008 autofs-5.0.3 ----------------------- diff --git a/modules/replicated.c b/modules/replicated.c index e41713e..362ab1b 100644 --- a/modules/replicated.c +++ b/modules/replicated.c @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ void seed_random(void) int fd; unsigned int seed; - fd = open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY); + fd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY); if (fd < 0) { srandom(time(NULL)); return;