issue with EGD in openssh

[Lutz Jaenicke]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 07:37:33AM -0700, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> 1) SIGPIPE is not ignored for the master listener daemon.  I put
>    the signal() call early on since it needs to be before
>    get_random_bytes() is called but it could also be placed in the
>    EGD version of get_random_bytes().  For some reason, with prngd
>    I am getting SIGPIPE even though the prngd processes is not
>    dying.  get_random_bytes() also needs to check for EPIPE and
>    reconnect to the daemon if it gets that.

Hmm, I have not yet seen this behaviour. On what platform do you see
this behaviour?

Best regards,
	Lutz
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