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Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 19:18:14 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
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Subject: Re: short read from /dev/urandom
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Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
> What about signals to a process blocked on /dev/random (which also has no
> documented mention of being interruptible by signals)?
> 
> Not handling short reads is always a bug.
> 

Agreed it is.  All I was saying was that I could see a *small* exception 
(like PIPE_BUF) for /dev/urandom.

Sleeping would be utterly unacceptable.

	-hpa
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