Re: continuing documentation

2001-06-23 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
> OKUJI Yoshinori writes: >> Tagging comments is not acceptable to me, because I feel that we >> have enough information already to make a comparison of text. We >> know how to collapse simple Texinfo into text, the word order is >> easy to compare, and with some heuristics, we can gener

Re: translator for /dev/random and /dev/urandom

2001-06-23 Thread Oystein Viggen
Quoth Marcus Brinkmann: > Use --seed-file to store a seed file across reboots (in /var/run). At least in Debian GNU hurd, the boot scripts seem to do this: if test -d /var/run; then (cd /var/run && { rm -rf -- *; cp /dev/null utmp; chmod 644 utmp; }) fi Wouldn't this make /var/run an exce

translator for /dev/random and /dev/urandom

2001-06-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, I hacked up a translator for /dev/random and /dev/urandom. It is not quite finished yet, but already usable. I don't have time for it the next couple of days, so I better post it now in case somebody is interested in taking a look at it. The tar file is available in ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu