Submitted By: Robert Connolly <robert at linuxfromscratch dot org> (ashes)
Date: 2005-02-12
Initial Package Version: 2.6.10.0
Upstream Status: Not submitted
Origin: http://frandom.sourceforge.net/
Description: This patch adds support for sysctl erandom and urandom.

This patch depends on the kernel pseudo_random patch.

Also see:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs/
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/entropy.txt

diff -Naur linux-libc-headers-2.6.10.0.orig/include/linux/sysctl.h linux-libc-headers-2.6.10.0/include/linux/sysctl.h
--- linux-libc-headers-2.6.10.0.orig/include/linux/sysctl.h	2005-01-08 14:03:21.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-libc-headers-2.6.10.0/include/linux/sysctl.h	2005-02-12 18:10:36.386370616 +0000
@@ -195,6 +195,8 @@
 };
 
 /* /proc/sys/kernel/random */
+#define SYSCTL_URANDOM
+#define SYSCTL_ERANDOM
 enum
 {
 	RANDOM_POOLSIZE=1,
@@ -202,7 +204,9 @@
 	RANDOM_READ_THRESH=3,
 	RANDOM_WRITE_THRESH=4,
 	RANDOM_BOOT_ID=5,
-	RANDOM_UUID=6
+	RANDOM_UUID=6,
+	RANDOM_URANDOM=7,
+	RANDOM_ERANDOM=8
 };
 
 /* /proc/sys/kernel/pty */