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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:43:22 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/libexec Makefile src/libexec/save-entropy Makefile save-entropy.sh 
Message-ID:  <200101112043.f0BKhOI10463@gratis.grondar.za>
In-Reply-To: <200101112037.PAA49340@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> ; from Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>  "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:37:28 EST."
References:  <200101112037.PAA49340@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> 

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> <<On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:14:29 +0200, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> said:
> 
> > Where do we get a plain old random number generator while we're waiting
> > for the entropy device to seed?
> 
> There are only five of them in libc.  Pick one.

In the kernel? There is random(9).

M
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