[arch-projects] [initscripts] [PATCH] rc.sysinit: Fix Initializing Random Seed

[Dave Reisner]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 07:18:07PM +0200, Seblu wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Kurt J. Bosch
> <kjb-temp-2009 at alpenjodel.de> wrote:
> > ---
> >  rc.sysinit |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit
> > index a6a5fa5..2d0fdc1 100755
> > --- a/rc.sysinit
> > +++ b/rc.sysinit
> > @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ status "Activating Swap" swapon -a
> >  RANDOM_SEED=/var/lib/misc/random-seed
> >  [[ -f $RANDOM_SEED ]] &&
> >        status "Initializing Random Seed" \
> > -               cat $RANDOM_SEED > /dev/urandom
> > +               eval 'cat $RANDOM_SEED > /dev/urandom'
> >
> >  stat_busy "Removing Leftover Files"
> >        rm -rf /etc/{nologin,shutdownpid} /forcefsck /tmp/* /tmp/.* &>/dev/null
> > --
> > 1.7.1
> >
> >
> 
> why not  : echo -nE "$RANDOM_SEED" > /dev/urandom  ?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Sébastien Luttringer
> www.seblu.net

$RANDOM_SEED is a filename, not a string. I don't understand the eval
here at all, but it's probably moot given the other recent patchwork...