[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Mention that /dev/urandom is needed.

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Fri Jun 11 17:48:35 UTC 2010


Looks good.

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> ---
>  INSTALL.Linux |    2 ++
>  PORTING       |    7 +++++++
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/INSTALL.Linux b/INSTALL.Linux
> index c3cf2f8..014e3ac 100644
> --- a/INSTALL.Linux
> +++ b/INSTALL.Linux
> @@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ following software:
>       if it is installed in a different location, then some Open
>       vSwitch log messages will not be as detailed.
>
> +You should ensure that /dev/urandom exists.
> +
>  To run the ovsdmonitor tool, the machine must also have the following
>  software:
>
> diff --git a/PORTING b/PORTING
> index c9c5369..3b3e150 100644
> --- a/PORTING
> +++ b/PORTING
> @@ -202,6 +202,13 @@ during a port:
>       vSwitch datapath module for the Linux kernel.  They may serve as
>       a model for minimal netdev implementations.
>
> +Miscellaneous Notes
> +-------------------
> +
> +lib/uuid.c, used in OVSDB, assumes that it can obtain a high-quality
> +random number seed at startup by reading from /dev/urandom.  You may
> +need to modify it if this is not true on your platform.
> +
>  Questions
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>
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