On 2004-05-12, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
> I have one comment, and that is that the use of /dev/random has
> created lots of unexpected problems in FreeBSD which they have
> hacked around.
What problems? I did a grep for /dev/random on 4.x and only came up
with a couple of uses in contrib/.
> I think we should simply use /dev/urandom here,
> which is guarenteed not to block and will certainly produce a
> random enough seed for rand's tiny little seed.
/dev/random is non-blocking in FreeBSD 5.x since it uses a different,
non-blocking algorithm.
Kris