On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:57:53AM -0400, Simon Perreault wrote:
> I'm trying to use /dev/srandom, but I can't get even a single byte out
> of it.
>
> $ hexdump -n 1 /dev/srandom
>
> It just hangs there, sleeping. If I use /dev/urandom instead, it returns
> immediately, as expected:
>
> $ hexdump -n 1 /dev/urandom
> 0000000 0069
> 0000001
>
> I tried on various routers that have been forwarding packets since
> forever. I waited a "long time" for the read to succeed. I tried on
> OpenBSD 4.3 and 4.6. Am I doing something wrong?
Using hexdump(1), apparently - "dd if=/dev/srandom bs=1 count=1 |
hexdump" works just fine. You may want to sendbug this one.
Joachim
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