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SubjectRe: user-mode port 0.56-2.4.18-15
Hi!

> > Why don't you just feed your /dev/random from hosts /dev/random?
>
> That would open up DOS attacks on the host. A nasty person inside a UML
> could drain the host's /dev/random and hang anything on the host that needs
> random numbers.

Okay, make it /dev/urandom ;-).

Pavel
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