Lennart Poettering
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Previously, we'd only ever read 512 byte from the random seed file, under the assumption we won't need more. With this change we'll read the full file, even if it is larger. The idea behind htis change is that people can dump additional data into the random seed file offline if they like, and it can be low quality, and we'll seed the pool with it anyway. Moreover, if people are paranoid and want us to save/restore a bigger seed, it's easy to do: just truncate the file to the right size and we'll save/restore as much in the future. This also reworks the file a bit, introducing two clear if blocks that load and that save the random seed, and that each are conditionalized more carefully.
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