Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754723AbXJBP0F (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 11:26:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752403AbXJBPZz (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 11:25:55 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.180]:64358 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751863AbXJBPZy (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 11:25:54 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=kOZTdqmdOh5R8slWEqYzEodmieo2oLKpxAc7Kwcy7nnqx60UfeTOG7TWinyEn/n9TDdIrymodon7lImG1Vi8n3V8B0nra28Fc5ZHbllpEm/FDJmjQrg+M4/uQwvva7/FPqY7BUQ9o6raeozCQN+DnT7c158K58qjSfKPZfbkw6I= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 17:25:52 +0200 From: "Yakov Lerner" To: "Kernel Linux" Subject: get amount of "entropy" in /dev/random ? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 530 Lines: 13 >From the userlevel, can I get an estimate of "amount of entropy" in /dev/random, that is, the estimate of number of bytes readable until it blocks ? Of course multiple processes can read bytes and this would not be exact ... but still .. as an upper boundary estimate ? Thanks Yakov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/