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authorPeter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>2016-09-11 15:56:18 +0200
committerPeter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>2016-09-11 15:56:18 +0200
commit2e5b6ae90ff243f2e7015f015a773204fe94c006 (patch)
treea37ad271b397e860ef4d3d62838f584c4304859c /hwrand.py
parenta40f6e6c586f5ff27edb108def9a66cdf43b1e1a (diff)
downloadscripts-2e5b6ae90ff243f2e7015f015a773204fe94c006.tar.gz
Revert "hwrand.pl,hwrand.py: forward randomness"
This reverts commit 7851407fe89228897d01278bb1929f817821a701. Hardware randomness is automatically added to the pools, these scripts are not really needed. The original issue that made the boot hang was fixed in Linux v4.7-12388-g0cbbc422.
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-#!/usr/bin/env python
-import fcntl, select, struct
-with open('/dev/hwrng', 'rb') as hw, open('/dev/random') as rnd:
- while True:
- d = hw.read(512)
- fcntl.ioctl(rnd, 0x40085203, struct.pack('ii', 4 * len(d), len(d)) + d)
- select.select([], [rnd], [])