On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > > > On 06/07/2011 01:18 PM, Alex Hunsaker wrote: >> >> I don't suppose /dev/urandom blocks on OS X? Granted, I may have >> missed something in translation with the macro fest that is perl... > > > I wondered if we were possibly exhausting some entropy pool. It seems like > this would be just such a bad bug that it would be amazing if we were the > first to trip up on it. But I guess you never know.
/dev/urandom is the one that's supposed to be "unblocking" (that's what the "u" is for). Supposedly, /dev/random and /dev/urandom behave identically on OS-X, using Yarrow for RNG. It shouldn't be blocking. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man4/urandom.4.html -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?" -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
