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



On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Jonathan Amery wrote:

>Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:58:43 +0100
>From: Jonathan Amery <jdamery@ysolde.ucam.org>
>To: debian-ports@lists.debian.org, debian-x@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your
>    architecture
>
>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.

/dev/urandom makes more sense.  /dev/random will block too 
easily.


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