Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3CE64C14.2090705@lapo.it> Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 14:41:56 +0200 From: Lapo Luchini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it-IT; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020516 X-Accept-Language: it, en, fr, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mailing List: CygWin Subject: Re: /dev/[u]random sources Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit One othe rlittle thing, why limit the seeding to 512 bytes? To avoid "spamming" a function that is "slow"? Wouldn't this delay anyhow go in the caller's thread? -- Lapo 'Raist' Luchini lapo AT lapo DOT it (PGP & X.509 keys available) http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/