Re: Concurrent access to /dev/urandom

[Bernard Normier]

> > I use /dev/urandom to generate UUIDs by reading 16 random bytes from
> > /dev/urandom (very much like e2fsprogs' libuuid).
>
> Why not use /dev/random for such data instead?

A UUID generator that blocks from time to time waiting for entropy would not 
be usable.

Cheers,
Bernard

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