always read in RAND_poll() if we can't use select because of a too

[openssl.git] / CHANGES

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@@ -339,6 +339,11 @@
 
  Changes between 0.9.8b and 0.9.8c  [xx XXX xxxx]
 
 
  Changes between 0.9.8b and 0.9.8c  [xx XXX xxxx]
 

+  *) Change the Unix randomness entropy gathering to use poll() when
+     possible instead of select(), since the latter has some
+     undesirable limitations.
+     [Darryl Miles via Richard Levitte and Bodo Moeller]
+

   *) Disable "ECCdraft" ciphersuites more thoroughly.  Now special
      treatment in ssl/ssl_ciph.s makes sure that these ciphersuites
      cannot be implicitly activated as part of, e.g., the "AES" alias.
   *) Disable "ECCdraft" ciphersuites more thoroughly.  Now special
      treatment in ssl/ssl_ciph.s makes sure that these ciphersuites
      cannot be implicitly activated as part of, e.g., the "AES" alias.


@@ -1292,7 +1297,7 @@
   *) Change the Unix randomness entropy gathering to use poll() when
      possible instead of select(), since the latter has some
      undesirable limitations.
   *) Change the Unix randomness entropy gathering to use poll() when
      possible instead of select(), since the latter has some
      undesirable limitations.

-     [Darryl Miles via Richard Levitte]
+     [Darryl Miles via Richard Levitte and Bodo Moeller]

 
   *) Disable rogue ciphersuites:
 
 
   *) Disable rogue ciphersuites: