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 14:24:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 14:24:47 -0500 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([212.227.14.2]:7004 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 14:24:35 -0500 From: Bernd Eckenfels To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BUG in 2.4.0: dd if=/dev/random of=out.txt bs=10000 count=100 Message-Id: Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 20:24:35 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <20010113035314.316.qmail@web5205.mail.yahoo.com> you wrote: > If I do the dd line in the title under 2.4.0 I get an > out.txt file of 591 bytes. /dev/random will only give you as much bytes as are available. and even then you should not do it cause you drain the random pool. Use /dev/urandom instead. Greetings Bernd - 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/