On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 15:29 -0800, Chris Darroch wrote: > Without having tested explicitly, it looks like the default case for > modern Linux is APR_HAS_RANDOM=1 and DEV_RANDOM=/dev/random, > with /dev/random blocking when there's no entropy.
Don't think so (run on my F-16 machine, without passing any options to that effect): --------------- checking for entropy source... /dev/urandom --------------- If you look at the test, it has: --------------- for f in /dev/arandom /dev/urandom /dev/random; do --------------- So, non-blocking is preferred on Linux for sure. -- Bojan
