From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263276AbTJUT1d (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:27:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263280AbTJUT1d (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:27:33 -0400 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:28435 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263276AbTJUT1b (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:27:31 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: [RFC] frandom - fast random generator module Date: 21 Oct 2003 19:17:30 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <3F8E552B.3010507@users.sf.net> <3F8E58A9.20005@cyberone.com.au> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1066763850 18586 192.168.12.62 (21 Oct 2003 19:17:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <3F8E58A9.20005@cyberone.com.au>, Nick Piggin wrote: | Without looking at the code, why should this be done in the kernel? Because it's a generally useful function, /dev/random and /dev/urandom are in the kernel, /dev/urandom is SLOW. And doing a userspace solution is a bitch in shell scripts ;-) Since bloat is being discussed in several threads, you may want to propose that /dev/*random be config options in the "delete features for size" section. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.