From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 23:45:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 23:45:07 -0500 Received: from james.kalifornia.com ([208.179.0.2]:19288 "EHLO james.kalifornia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 23:44:48 -0500 Message-ID: <3A5FDD3B.AA0906E8@linux.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:44:43 -0800 From: David Ford Reply-To: david+validemail@kalifornia.com Organization: Talon Technology, Intl. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-ac6 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Landley CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BUG in 2.4.0: dd if=/dev/random of=out.txt bs=10000 count=100 In-Reply-To: <20010113035314.316.qmail@web5205.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- ---NOTICE -- fwd: fwd: fwd: type emails will be deleted automatically. "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents", Thomas Jefferson [1742-1826], 3rd US President - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/