Are macports builds prevented from accessing /dev/random ?

[Joshua Root]

On 2017-6-14 19:21 , Chris Jones wrote:
> 
> 
> On 14/06/17 00:20, Joshua Root wrote:
>> On 2017-6-14 08:18 , Christopher Jones wrote:
>>>
>>> Had a look into this. The ROOT source never explicitly opens 
>>> /dev/random in read/write mode. Only read only.
>>>
>>> However, it also uses a number of external library calls, like 
>>> std::rand(), and my best bet is one of these is doing it. As writing 
>>> to /dev/random is allowed, to update the entropy pool, I don’t think 
>>> this in itself is an issue.
>>>
>>> So is it OK to add /dev/random to the allowed locations for the 
>>> sandbox ?
>>
>> Yes, that would be fine.
> 
> So, should I submit an MR for this, or can you do it ? If you want me 
> to, where in base should I go looking for the allowed list ?

<https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/c8c1565f42a60c2b9e85a204603a66052f444c43>

- Josh