From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: typo: failed to genetate UUID? what's it?
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:51:21 +0300
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Domenico Andreoli wrote:

> Vitaly Fertman wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 13 January 2004 17:12, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> what does it really mean? is something i need to worry? i sometimes 
>>> receive
>>> it when i'm formatting a new reiserfs partition.
>>
>>
>> do you have /dev/urandom? It should have read permissions.
>>
> no
>
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Vitaly, if this happens to real users, then you must handle the error 
gracefully and informatively.....

I have no idea whether a significant percentage of them lack 
/dev/urandom, maybe you should ask the list.

-- 
Hans