On Dec 20 16:32, Jim Garrison via Cygwin wrote: > I dug around in the Cygwin doc looking for details on how /dev/random > and /dev/urandom are implemented, but came up empty. Is this > documented anywhere?
Not documented as such, it's a "use the source, luke" kind of information. /dev/random is implemted by calling RtlGenRandom(). /dev/urandom is implemted by calling RtlGenRandom() and, if that fails (which is extremly unlikely) it falls back to a very simple PRNG. Corinna -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
