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From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Subject: Re: kern/38527: /dev/random does not obey O_NONBLOCK flag
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The following reply was made to PR kern/38527; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, gson@nominum.com
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Subject: Re: kern/38527: /dev/random does not obey O_NONBLOCK flag
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 13:00:04 -0700 (PDT)

 This behavior is intentional and was changed some time ago.  If you want
 to block on /dev/random waiting for bytes to be available, use
 select/poll.
 
 Followup discussion to -current.
 
 -Nate
 

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