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Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 17:26:39 +0000 (GMT)
From: Matthew Kirkwood <matthew@hairy.beasts.org>
To: "Theodore Y Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Subject: /dev/random probs in 2.4test(12-pre3)
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Hi,

It looks like the random driver in 2.4test will return a
short read, rather than blocking.  This is breaking vpnd
(http://sunsite.dk/vpnd/) which breaks with "failed to
gather random data" or similar.

Here's a sample strace:

open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY)           = 3
read(3, "q\321Nu\204\251^\234i\254\350\370\363\"\305\366R\2708V"..., 72) = 29
close(3)                                = 0

Have the semantics of the device changed, or is vpnd doing
something wrong?

Matthew.

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