Basically the call never fails, always generating high quality random data (especially the implementations based on Chacha* family, RC4 has predictability issues), there is no need of a file descriptor.
On 22 November 2017 at 16:06, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > David CARLIER <devne...@gmail.com> writes: > > I m not against as such that depends of the implementation but I ve seen > in > > quick glance it s RC4 ? > > More generally, why should we bother with an additional implementation? > Is this better than /dev/urandom, and if so why? > > regards, tom lane >
