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Re: netscape NSRANDFILE compatible with /dev/random ?
>From: "Jeff Weinstein" <[email protected]>
>Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 00:40:41 -0700
>> What happens if NSRANDFILE is set to /dev/random ?
>> will netscape try to read an infinite number of random bytes ?
>
> In the current patch it will read up to 1 megabyte before stopping.
>In 2.0 I will add a way to specify a size. As a temporary hack you
>could use 'dd' to get the number of bytes you want into a file, then
>remove the file once netscape had started up.
or you can define a named pipe file (on UNIX at least) which
runs /dev/random through dd.