[Info-vax] SSH/SCP sessions hanging for 7 minutes while reading from "/dev/random"

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/30/2021 6:41 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> I am puzzled about why it tries to read from /dev/random
>> on VMS - it should try and get some random bytes via
>> SYS$GETJPIW, SYS$GETSYI and SUS$GETDVIW - or something
>> like that.
> 
> What he is seeing is the result of a printf statement that is activated
> only when the debug flag is set.
> 
> So it is likely doing exactly what you describe, but nobody has changed
> the printf statement in the source accordingly.

That is possible.

 >                                                Exactly what it's doing
 > you'd have to look in the source for, but a grep on "/dev/random" ought
 > to get you to the right place.

Arne