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SubjectRe: [RFC] frandom - fast random generator module
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In article <3F8E58A9.20005@cyberone.com.au>,
Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:

| Without looking at the code, why should this be done in the kernel?

Because it's a generally useful function, /dev/random and /dev/urandom
are in the kernel, /dev/urandom is SLOW. And doing a userspace solution
is a bitch in shell scripts ;-)

Since bloat is being discussed in several threads, you may want to
propose that /dev/*random be config options in the "delete features for
size" section.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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