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Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:01:41 +0000 (GMT)
From: Matthew Kirkwood <matthew@hairy.beasts.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: /dev/random probs in 2.4test(12-pre3)
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On 1 Dec 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> > 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?
>
> vpnd is doing something wrong: it's assuming short reads won't happen.
> /dev/random will block if there is NOTHING to be read; however, if
> there are bytes to be read, it will return them even if it is less
> than the user asked for.

Ah, many thanks for the clarification.  I'll fix vpnd then.

Matthew.

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