GNU_PG on OS390

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, DAVIDS, Rob wrote:

> I assume we can ignore the note.  Are any of the other messages significant?
> What needs to be in  /dev/zero ?

GnuPG does uses /dev/zero on systems which don't allow anonymous mmap.
This is a common trick to work around.  Make sure you have the
/dev/zero device:

crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       1,   5 Jul 21  1998 /dev/zero

I am not sure about the implemenation of the random device, you
probably want to check first whether it really delivers random (You
have to look at the implementation as it is not possible to do any
meaningful tests on the output of /dev/random).

  Werner


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