Tomasz Torcz - 09.07.19, 21:07:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 02:58:37PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > > What need could there possibly be for randomness at boot time?
> > > > What *use* could there even be, never mind need?
> > >
> > > From what I gathered they need some basic randomness for UUID
> > > generation for all units and for some hashmap implementation. But
> > > as far as I got, they would not even need random values with
> > > cryptographic quality. But when using /dev/urandom they still
> > > drain the entropy pool for more important applications of
> > > randomness (like generating SSH keys).>
> > So why do they need new UUID's at every boot?
>
> Not every boot. Every service start:
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/4b58153dd22172d817055d2a09a0
> cdf3f4bd9db3

Now *who* does need that?

Well…

Thank you for digging that out.

Seems Systemd developers pile complexity over complexity over complexity
just to even add more complexity.

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Martin