Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Eckenfels <> | Subject | Re: BUG in 2.4.0: dd if=/dev/random of=out.txt bs=10000 count=100 | Date | Sat, 13 Jan 2001 20:24:35 +0100 |
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In article <20010113035314.316.qmail@web5205.mail.yahoo.com> you wrote: > If I do the dd line in the title under 2.4.0 I get an > out.txt file of 591 bytes. /dev/random will only give you as much bytes as are available. and even then you should not do it cause you drain the random pool. Use /dev/urandom instead.
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