Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:01:41 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: /dev/random probs in 2.4test(12-pre3) |
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On 1 Dec 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY) = 3 > > read(3, "q\321Nu\204\251^\234i\254\350\370\363\"\305\366R\2708V"..., 72) = 29 > > close(3) = 0 > > > > Have the semantics of the device changed, or is vpnd doing > > something wrong? > > vpnd is doing something wrong: it's assuming short reads won't happen. > /dev/random will block if there is NOTHING to be read; however, if > there are bytes to be read, it will return them even if it is less > than the user asked for.
Ah, many thanks for the clarification. I'll fix vpnd then.
Matthew.
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