random-seed: clarify one comment

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Franck Bui
2022-10-25 13:54:10 +02:00
parent ea37e1edf9
commit 46e0b5dca7

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@@ -249,12 +249,13 @@ static int save_seed_file(
if (!buf)
return log_oom();
/* Let's make this whole job asynchronous, i.e. let's make ourselves a barrier for proper
* initialization of the random pool. */
k = getrandom(buf, seed_size, GRND_NONBLOCK);
if (k < 0 && errno == EAGAIN && synchronous) {
/* If we're asked to make ourselves a barrier for proper initialization of the random pool
* make this whole job synchronous by asking getrandom() to wait until the requested number
* of random bytes is available. */
log_notice("Kernel entropy pool is not initialized yet, waiting until it is.");
k = getrandom(buf, seed_size, 0); /* retry synchronously */
k = getrandom(buf, seed_size, 0);
}
if (k < 0)
log_debug_errno(errno, "Failed to read random data with getrandom(), falling back to /dev/urandom: %m");