In article <9bvq1p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Garth Wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since MacOS X is based on BSD, doesn't it have access to /dev/random? Or is
> that Linux-only?
% uname -v
Darwin Kernel Version 1.3: Fri Mar 30 20:45:03 PST 2001;
root:xnu/xnu-124.1.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
% ls -l /dev/random
ls: /dev/random: No such file or directory
% uname -v
FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE #0: Thu Nov 9 16:53:20 EST 2000
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/PAIRk
% ls -l /dev/random
crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2, 3 Sep 30 2000 /dev/random
That answer your question? ;-)
No, OS X doesn't have a /dev/random, basically because none's been
written. The part of OS X that needs to change is all open-source, so
it's just waiting for someone to think of it...
--
Nicholas Riley <njriley@uiuc edu>
