On 6-Jan-09, at 1:19 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Jacob Ritorto wrote: > >> Is urandom nonblocking? > > The OS provided random devices need to be secure and so they depend on > collecting "entropy" from the system so the random values are truely > random. They also execute complex code to produce the random numbers. > As a result, both of the random device interfaces are much slower than > a disk drive.
That is true, of course, but only one of them (/dev/random) blocks without entropy (Jacob's question). --Toby > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/ > bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
