Fixing getrandom()

Posted Sep 30, 2019 13:19 UTC (Mon) by Otus (subscriber, #67685)
In reply to: Fixing getrandom() by patrakov
Parent article: Fixing getrandom()

> If things as late as GDM/gnome-session are still "early boot", then which service does not count as early boot? See the problem?

From the point of view of the random pools, before this change, anything before the user gets a login screen is early boot. That's when you start getting more than a trickle of entropy.