Follow-up Comment #5, patch #6797 (project coreutils):
IMO both /dev/urandom and /dev/random should be used as sources of data for
seeding PRNGs, as opposed to being used as sources of random data directly.
My rationale for this is that even using /dev/urandom for large quantities of
data will exhaust the system's entropy pool.
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