On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 06:53:54PM -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
Speaking of full-stack perspectives, would it affect your decision if Debian Stretch were made robust against blocking /dev/urandom on AWS/GCE? Because I think we could find lots of people who would be overjoyed to fix Stretch before the next merge window even opens (AFAICT the quick fix is literally a 1 line patch), if that allowed the blocking /dev/urandom patches to go in upstream...
Alas, it's not just Debian. Apparently it breaks the boot on Openwrt as well as Ubuntu Quantal: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/13/48 https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/31/599 (Yay for an automated test infrastructure that fires off as soon as you push to an externally visible git repository. :-) I haven't investigated to see exactly *why* it's blowing up on these userspace setups, but it's a great reminder for why changing an established interface is something that has to be done very carefully indeed. - Ted