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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:43:22 +0200
From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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> <<On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:14:29 +0200, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> said:
> 
> > Where do we get a plain old random number generator while we're waiting
> > for the entropy device to seed?
> 
> There are only five of them in libc.  Pick one.

In the kernel? There is random(9).

M
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