Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] frandom - fast random generator module | Date | 21 Oct 2003 18:06:02 -0700 |
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Followup to: <bn4aov$jf7$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com> By author: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > | > | Bullshit. "myrng 36 | foo" works just fine. > > myrng?? That doesn't seem to be part of the bash I have, or any > distribution I could check, and google shows a bunch of visual basic > results rather than anything useful. > > If you're suggesting that every user write their own program to > generate random numbers, then write a script to call it, that kind of > defeats the purpose of doing shell instead of writing a program, doesn't > it? Not to mention that to get entropy the user program will have to > call the devices anyway. > > I think this could also fail the objective of returning unique results > in an SMP system, but that's clearly imprementation dependent. >
No, I mean that putting a piece of code in the kernel "so it can be accessed from shell scripts" is idiotic. Make a binary of it and put it in the filesystem.
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