Re: The perils of security tools

[Philipp Gühring]

Hi,

> It is not an implementaion issue but a requirement of the C standard.
> To avoid buffering use
>
>    setvbuf (fp, NULL, _IONBF, 0);
>
> right after the fopen.

Ah! Thanks a lot!

Ok, I think that should be written into the man-pages of /dev/random and 
fgetc/fread and other related howtos.

Best regards,
Philipp Gühring

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