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Re: [Monotone-devel] Bumping required library versions
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Jack Lloyd |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Bumping required library versions |
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Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:33:03 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) |
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:42:55AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> botan 1.8.2 or 1.8.3 (whichever is the earliest version that fixes the
> "netsync server run as root on Linux hangs reading /proc/kmsg" bug)
The problem was mostly fixed in 1.8.3; if /dev/urandom exists and is
working, and a poll is done for 256 bits of estimated entropy (the
default), then /proc will never be scanned. In 1.8.6 I also changed it
so only world-readable files are checked, which ensures kmsg is
avoided entirely, and probably will also exclude any other 'magic'
/proc files.
-Jack