Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: [RFC] frandom - fast random generator module | Date | 21 Oct 2003 19:17:30 GMT |
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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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