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Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture



On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 01:58:43PM +0100, Jonathan Amery wrote:
> In article <m2n.s.17jO2U-000raB@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Branden writes:
> >> I can't believe he actually intends to keep it like this..
> >I'm going to #define DEV_RANDOM /dev/random for Linux systems.
> 
>  And Debian Hurd?  Or does the Hurd not have /dev/random or /dev/urandom?
> 
>  I suspect that /dev/urandom may be the better choice, however.

On GNU/Hurd targets, /dev/urandom should be used.

Thanks,
Marcus

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