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nbzic blocks needing entropy
Hi, all,
I was just building netbsd-10 on a newly installed system, and I noticed
this:
[ 9118.722449] entropy: pid 9063 (nbzic) blocking due to lack of entropy
root 9063 0.0 0.0 22472 3472 pts/0 IN 7:33AM 0:00.03
/usr/src/../tools/bin/nbzic -d
/usr/src/../obj-amd64/external/public-domain/tz/share/zoneinfo/builddir -L
/dev/null africa antarctica asia australasia europe northamerica
southamerica etcetera backward factory
The man page for zic is... well, it's different, but I don't see any
functions it'd do that'd need randomness. OTOH, lib/libc/time/zic.c shows
randomness is used for creating temp files.
While people won't usually install a system, then immediately use it to
compile without fully setting it up, I wonder if this use of random is a
bit superfluous, or if at very least it should use non-blocking random?
John
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