Re: user-mode port 0.56-2.4.18-15

[Jeff Dike]

[e-mail] said:
> Why don't you just feed your /dev/random from hosts /dev/random? 

That would open up DOS attacks on the host.  A nasty person inside a UML
could drain the host's /dev/random and hang anything on the host that needs
random numbers.

> Wow.. Why such strange value? 

HZ > 50 is needed to make ps and friends shut up.
HZ % 4 == 0 is needed to make some QOS thing compile.

				Jeff