Re: Random /dev/urandom entry?

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hello!

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 02:36:43AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> So my question is: will we provide a /dev/urandom? (pseudo-random
> generator)

Well, the no-brainer solution is to make some file available at
`/dev/urandom', like it is commonly done for `/dev/random'.

Or you install one of the existing random translators on these nodes, see
<http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Hurd/RandomDevice>.  Note that I also
just updated this very page, for example I attached a ``mbox.bz2
containing all the emails concerning this topic which I was able to
gather from public archives'' and added linked to ``Sune Kirkeby's
incomplete port of the Linux /dev/{,u}random device driver''.


Regards,
 Thomas

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