Re: [RFC] frandom - fast random generator module

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <bn4aov$jf7$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    davidsen@xxxxxxx (bill davidsen)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> | 
> | Bullshit.  "myrng 36 | foo" works just fine.
> 
> myrng?? That doesn't seem to be part of the bash I have, or any
> distribution I could check, and google shows a bunch of visual basic
> results rather than anything useful.
> 
> If you're suggesting that every user write their own program to
> generate random numbers, then write a script to call it, that kind of
> defeats the purpose of doing shell instead of writing a program, doesn't
> it? Not to mention that to get entropy the user program will have to
> call the devices anyway.
> 
> I think this could also fail the objective of returning unique results
> in an SMP system, but that's clearly imprementation dependent.
> 

No, I mean that putting a piece of code in the kernel "so it can be
accessed from shell scripts" is idiotic.  Make a binary of it and put
it in the filesystem.

	-hpa
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