On 03/03/2013 10:06 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
Maybe it would make sense to use /dev/random where available? (The problem is that /dev/random can block. On small embedded systems without monitor/mice/keyboard this can happen easily)
I suppose theoretically you shouldn't be calling /dev/random many times -- only each time you spawn a thread within which pseudo-random numbers are being generated -- and in an embedded context, this ought to happen rarely, no?
But from googling around I see that /dev/random can block fairly quickly, after only a handful of numbers :-(
Is something equivalent available on Windows?
