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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:55:28 -0400
From: Dave Maietta <dave@qix.net>
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Cc: trivial@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: [TRIVIAL][PATCH] 2.4 drivers_char_random.c fix sample shellscripts
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[tyop in first sumbissoin, fixed here]
This fixes the sample shellscripts given in the comments of 
drivers/char/random.c.
The scripts save and restore random seeds for /dev/random across reboots.

--- linux/drivers/char/random.c.orig	2002-09-14 14:56:03.000000000 -0400
+++ linux/drivers/char/random.c	2002-09-17 19:49:34.000000000 -0400
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
   *	chmod 600 $random_seed
   *	poolfile=/proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize
   *	[ -r $poolfile ] && bytes=`cat $poolfile` || bytes=512
- *	dd if=/dev/urandom of=$random_seed count=1 bs=bytes
+ *	dd if=/dev/urandom of=$random_seed count=1 bs=$bytes
   *
   * and the following lines in an appropriate script which is run as
   * the system is shutdown:
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@
   *	chmod 600 $random_seed
   *	poolfile=/proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize
   *	[ -r $poolfile ] && bytes=`cat $poolfile` || bytes=512
- *	dd if=/dev/urandom of=$random_seed count=1 bs=bytes
+ *	dd if=/dev/urandom of=$random_seed count=1 bs=$bytes
   *
   * For example, on most modern systems using the System V init
   * scripts, such code fragments would be found in

Dave Maietta
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