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



On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 02:44:26PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:28:18PM -0400, Jeff Sheinberg wrote:
> > Why does anyone need to read megabytes of urandom?
> 
> Nobody does.  Or, at least, xdm doesn't.  Markus is opining without the
> benefit of having checked the facts.

Uh, I never, ever said that xdm would read megabytes from any /dev/ but
/dev/mem.  Some people have too much phantasies.

Thanks, Brandon,
Marcus

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