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    SubjectRe: Concurrent access to /dev/urandom
    >As long as I serialize access to /dev/urandom, I get different values.
    >However, with concurrent access to /dev/urandom, I quickly get duplicate

    How do you concurrently read from urandom? That's only possible with 2 or more
    CPUs, and even then, I hope that the urandom chardev has some spinlock.

    >#include <pthread.h>
    >[...]

    Rule of thumb: Post the smallest possible code that shows the problem.


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