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by throwaway2048 4349 days ago
it is normal for a vast amount of software to fork privsep children into /var/empty, which as name suggests, is empty.

Forcing urandom to exist also precludes mounting partions 'nodev' which has secuirty implications in a chroot enviroment.

Lastly, relying on a devicefile makes you prone to things like fd exhaustion attacks.