From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 00:28:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 00:28:27 -0500 Received: from web5204.mail.yahoo.com ([216.115.106.85]:37390 "HELO web5204.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 00:28:14 -0500 Message-ID: <20010113052809.24146.qmail@web5204.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:28:09 -0800 (PST) From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: BUG in 2.4.0: dd if=/dev/random of=out.txt bs=10000 count=100 To: david+validemail@kalifornia.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- David Ford wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > > > If I do the dd line in the title under 2.4.0 I get > an > > out.txt file of 591 bytes. > > It isn't broken, you have no more entropy. You must > have some system > activity of various sorts before you regain some > entropy. Moving the mouse > around, hitting keys, etc, will slowly add more > entropy. > > -d I'd wondered what urandom was for. Thanks. Rob __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/