Re: Concurrent access to /dev/urandom

[Jan Engelhardt]

>As long as I serialize access to /dev/urandom, I get different values.
>However, with concurrent access to /dev/urandom, I quickly get duplicate

How do you concurrently read from urandom? That's only possible with 2 or more
CPUs, and even then, I hope that the urandom chardev has some spinlock.

>#include <pthread.h>
>[...]

Rule of thumb: Post the smallest possible code that shows the problem.


Jan Engelhardt
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