> From the userlevel, can I get an estimate of "amount of entropy" > in /dev/random, that is, the estimate of number of bytes > readable until it blocks ? Of course multiple processes > can read bytes and this would not be exact ... but still .. as an upper > boundary estimate ? > > Thanks > Yakov
Yes. Look in drivers/char/random.c at the random_ioctl handler. You will see RNDGETENTCNT. DS - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
