From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 29 14:59:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17609 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:59:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pcpsj.pfcs.com (IUbohJlKs8o4+wF0Lh6C/Ib3S8cbfuW+@harlan.fred.net [205.252.219.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17530 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:59:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com) Received: from mumps.pfcs.com [192.52.69.11] (HELO mumps.pfcs.com) by pcpsj.pfcs.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) via ESMTP id for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 17:58:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from brown.pfcs.com [192.52.69.44] (HELO brown.pfcs.com) by mumps.pfcs.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) via ESMTP id for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:58:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Harlan Stenn Received: from harlan@localhost by brown.pfcs.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 17:58:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 17:58:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199806292158.RAA23991@brown.pfcs.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /dev/random? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When I to read a hunk of data from /dev/random I get a logical EOF pretty quickly. Is there a way around this? While I'm testing using "less -f /dev/random", my eventual goal is to read data from /dev/random via "dd" so I can begin to study how my DDS/2 tape drive behaves. Just to be clear, "dd if=/dev/random" also "stops" very quickly. H To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message