From: David Ford <david@linux.com>
To: Rob Landley <telomerase@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG in 2.4.0: dd if=/dev/random of=out.txt bs=10000 count=100
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:44:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A5FDD3B.AA0906E8@linux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010113035314.316.qmail@web5205.mail.yahoo.com>
Rob Landley wrote:
> If I do the dd line in the title under 2.4.0 I get an
> out.txt file of 591 bytes.
It isn't broken, you have no more entropy. You must have some system
activity of various sorts before you regain some entropy. Moving the mouse
around, hitting keys, etc, will slowly add more entropy.
-d
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-13 4:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-13 3:53 BUG in 2.4.0: dd if=/dev/random of=out.txt bs=10000 count=100 Rob Landley
2001-01-13 4:44 ` David Ford [this message]
2001-01-13 5:08 ` John Heffner
2001-01-13 20:37 ` David Santinoli
2001-01-13 22:45 ` David Ford
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2001-01-13 5:28 Rob Landley
2001-01-13 19:24 Bernd Eckenfels
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