On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 09:54:56AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > WTF? urandom is a character device and is returning short reads (note the 0+n vs n+0 counts). dd is not padding these out to the full blocksize (conv=sync) or making multiple reads to fill blocks (conv=fullblock).
Evidently the urandom device changed behaviour along the way, with regards to producing/buffering additional requested data, possibly as a result of a changed source implementation that stretches better/faster. No bug here, just bad assumptions. -- Dan.
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