Re: [Sks-devel] why does SKS have /dev/random open for writing?

[John Clizbe]

John Clizbe wrote:
> Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> hi SKS folks--
>> 
>> I was just looking at the behavior of sks 1.1.4, and i noticed that it
>> seems to have /dev/random open for writing:
>> 
>> 0 zimmermann:~# lsof /dev/random 
>> COMMAND PID       USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
>> sks     742 debian-sks    3w   CHR    1,8      0t0 1244 /dev/random
>> sks     756 debian-sks    3w   CHR    1,8      0t0 1244 /dev/random
>> 0 zimmermann:~# 
>> 
>> this is not read/write (which would be marked as 3u instead of 3w), but
>> write-only (presumably appending) to the character device.
>> 
>> I'm not clear on why this is happening.  I don't see /dev/random
>> referenced explicitly in the source.  Anyone have any clue about what
>> it's doing?  This is happening for me on debian systems -- can users of
>> other systems confirm or deny that this is happening for them as well?
>> 
>> Maybe it's an artifact of one of the ocaml libraries sks depends on?
>> I'm not sure how i'd debug that to verify it.
> 
> cryptlib?
> 
> Just my guess.
> 
> 
Arghh. cryptokit. (Too many libraries with similar names)

-- 
John P. Clizbe                      Inet: John (a) Gingerbear DAWT net
SKS/Enigmail/PGP-EKP                  or: John ( @ ) Enigmail DAWT net
FSF Assoc #995 / FSFE Fellow #1797  hkp://keyserver.gingerbear.net  or
     mailto:address@hidden

Q:"Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?"
A:"An odd melody / island voices on the winds / surplus of vowels"

signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature