From dev-return-9439-apmail-apr-dev-archive=apr.apache.org@apr.apache.org Thu Mar 13 15:53:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-apr-dev-archive@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 67821 invoked by uid 500); 13 Mar 2003 15:53:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@apr.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 67780 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2003 15:53:32 -0000 Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:52:31 -0800 Subject: Re: apr_generate_random_bytes() blocks forever Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) From: Aaron Bannert To: dev@apr.apache.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <86llzltu0r.fsf@kepler.ch.collab.net> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N You just need to get your machine to gather entropy from more sources. It's not like you create repositories that often, right? I could see us having a flag to ask for blocking good entropy or non-blocking not-as-good entropy. -aaron On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 02:31 PM, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote: > > RedHat 7.2 machine, I just built the latest Subverison > 0.19 sourceball: I can't create a new repository now. 'svnadmin > create' just sits forever, waiting for /dev/random to decide it has > enough entropy.