Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Dec 1998 11:08:16 -0500 | From | Dave Cinege <> | Subject | Re: /dev/one - why not /dev/repeat? |
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Michael Shields wrote: >> There are several reasons, and I for one could have used it many times. >> The biggest reason of all is speed.
> That's legitimate, if you have an application that really would be > substantially faster with a /dev/random. What is this app, and can > you show benchmarks?
If it was limited to a *specific* application, it would not warrent being placed it the kernel.
One use would be for low level file (device) acesss as mentioned in the 'wipe' thread. Compounding two pipes, to strip 4,000,000,000 line feeds, from using the 'yes' | 'tr' is slow and sloppy. It also assumes both commands are actually available.
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