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On 12/20/2023 7:32 PM, Jim Garrison via Cygwin wrote:
> I dug around in the Cygwin doc looking for details on how /dev/random
> and /dev/urandom are implemented, but came up empty.  Is this
> documented anywhere?

Writing a simple program and then watching where reading /dev/random
goes using gdb suggests its implemented using the dev_random C++
library supplied by Windows.

EM


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