Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 23:01:42 -0500 From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@chrome.onramp.net> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: mark@grondar.za, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Creating a /dev/random Message-ID: <199510170401.XAA04810@chrome.jdl.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Oct 1995 11:23:55 %2B1000." <199510170123.LAA17511@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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Apparently, Bruce Evans scribbled: > >>I don't understand something here - what happens if the one process is > >>reading both /dev/zero and /dev/random? will the two not then try to > >>share buf/zbuf and screw up? > > >See above > > Oops, I misread `one process'. Well, one process can't be in the kernel > twice. ...until SMP is implemented and then the whole locking issue comes into play, right? jdl
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