[gnutls-dev] Re: ongoing entropy problems

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On 2/1/06, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:

> Actually I assumed that.  So the easiest way to fix it is by having
> Exim initialize libgcrypt and initializing, saving a random seed
> file.
> I'll add an internal flock call to protect against the above race
> conditions.  But even without that it should really help to use a
> random seed.

But would this protect from two children accessing the same random
seed?