Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 2 Jul 1996 14:07:48 -0400 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: Fast random generator was: Re: Ideas for v2.1 |
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/dev/urandom is not intended to be used for getting random data for filling a disk. If you want to do this, write a quick user-mode program which sends to stdout a pseudo-random stream. For example:
int main(int argc, char **argv) { long r; int ret;
while (1) { r = random(); ret = write(1, r, sizeof(r)); if (ret <= 0) break; } return 0 } There's no need for a kernel based /dev/frandom.
- Ted
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