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From:   Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
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On Di, 17.09.19 21:58, Alexander E. Patrakov (patrakov@gmail.com) wrote:

> I am worried that the getrandom delays will be serialized, because processes
> sometimes run one after another. If there are enough chained/dependent
> processes that ask for randomness before it is ready, the end result is
> still a too-big delay, essentially a failed boot.
>
> In other words: your approach of adding delays only makes sense for heavily
> parallelized boot, which may not be the case, especially for embedded
> systems that don't like systemd.

As mentioned elsewhere: once the pool is initialized it's
initialized. This means any pending getrandom() on the whole system
will unblock at the same time, and from the on all getrandom()s will
be non-blocking.

systemd-random-seed.service is nowadays a synchronization point for
exactly the moment where the pool is considered full.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Berlin