Re: dev/random fixed?

[Hakan Olsson <ho@crt.se>]

Yes.

In fact, the relevant fix is:

RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/dev/rnd.c,v
revision 1.41
date: 2000/06/18 16:32:19;  author: millert;  state: Exp;  lines: +9 -1
Support FIONBIO and FIOASYNC.  FIOASYNC is more or less a no-op>

//Håkan

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, William Allen Simpson wrote:

> SANS came out with a notice today, so this will become frequently 
> asked....
> 
> According to http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind9.html
> 
>   On FreeBSD systems, the server logs error messages like 
>   "fcntl(8, F_SETFL, 4): Inappropriate ioctl for device". This is due 
>   to a bug in the FreeSBD /dev/random device. The bug has been reported
>   to the FreeBSD maintainers. A similar problem is reported to exist on 
>   OpenBSD.
> 
> It lists successful builds and tests on (potentially related)
>   FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE
>   NetBSD current (with unproven-pthreads-0.17) 
> 
> Anybody know whether this has been fixed in 2.8?
> 
> WSimpson@UMich.edu
>     Key fingerprint =  17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26  DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

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