Re: short read from /dev/urandom

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!
> >What do you think?  Does gcc -pg calls sigaction with SA_RESTART, to
> >avoid changing the behaviour of the programs that it is profiling?
> 
> Profiling certainly uses SA_RESTART.  But this was just one possible 
> problem case.
> 
> I'm concerned that there is isgnificant code out there relying on the 
> no-short-read promise.  And perhaps more importantly, other 
> implementations promise the same.

Well, but such code will need to be fixed, anyway; pre-2.6.10 kernels
will stay here for quite a long time.
				Pavel
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64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms         

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