Re: [Dovecot] random pool depletion

Timo Sirainen wrote:

I thought /dev/urandom didn't affect /dev/random? Guess I was wrong. Or is this Linux?

I just checked the netbsd source code, and afaict the same thing will happen there.

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/rndpool.c?rev=1.17&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

rndpool_extract_data is called with mode set to RND_EXTRACT_ANY

johannes