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lighttpd: do not block on getrandom syscall

Merged lighttpd: do not block on getrandom syscall
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  1. Jan 03, 2017
    • Jan Čermák's avatar
      lighttpd: do not block on getrandom syscall · fd61d836
      Jan Čermák authored 
      Sometimes the nonblocking entropy pool is not initialized soon enough,
causing the getrandom syscall to block even if it is using the urandom
pool.

The patch entirely disables using the methods using getrandom syscall.
The code falls back to using /dev/urandom char device, which should have
enough entropy (even though the kernel thinks otherwise) thanks to
the urandom feeding from ATSHA204 in /etc/init.d/boot
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