From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 16 22:59:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA10365 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 22:59:20 -0700 Received: from grunt.grondar.za (grunt.grondar.za [196.7.18.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA10354 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 22:59:07 -0700 Received: from grumble.grondar.za (grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by grunt.grondar.za (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA24606; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 07:58:27 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA29664; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 07:58:26 +0200 Message-Id: <199510170558.HAA29664@grumble.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grumble.grondar.za: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Bruce Evans cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Creating a /dev/random Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 07:58:25 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >>I don't understand something here - what happens if the one process is > >>reading both /dev/zero and /dev/random? will the two not then try to > >>share buf/zbuf and screw up? > > >See above > > Oops, I misread `one process'. Well, one process can't be in the kernel > twice. I replied to this 10 seconds ago - please ignore that reply. M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grumble.grondar.za for PGP key