[42559] in Cypherpunks
Re: /dev/random for FreeBSD [was: Re: /dev/random for Linux]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Murray)
Tue Oct 31 01:17:21 1995
To: "Josh M. Osborne" <stripes@va.pubnix.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>, cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 08:12:34 +0200
From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
> When /dev/random doesn't have "enough" enthropy left does reading
> from it return an error, or block? I would strongly suggest
> blocking, as the non-blocking behavur is not really all that useful.
It returns EOF.
M
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