Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:18:35 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11) |
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>Would you suggest making /dev/random point to /dev/hw_random then ?
No. I for example do not have a hardware RNG, so `modprobe hw_random` fails with No Such Device. Making it a symlink would make it a dangling one.
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