Brian Reichert wrote:
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:14:13PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Check the source.. is it using /dev/urandom (which never blocks), or
/dev/random (which I still don't think blocks, but may return short
reads). Either way, it sounds like some level of application bug...it
probably should be using the former source, but even if it's not, it
shouldn't be blocking.
ktrace shows /dev/random, and indeed, very short reads.
Let me try another maunal build, pushing it to /dev/urandom.
Depending on why that program needs random bits, that could be a very bad
idea. Take a look at the following page and see if it helps:
http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/randomness.html
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