Pádraig Brady wrote: > Steven Schveighoffer wrote: >> Follow-up Comment #4, patch #6797 (project coreutils): >> >> Thanks for the suggestion, but I really don't understand the reluctance to >> utilize the (already implemented) internal random number generator. It's >> there, it costs nothing extra to use it, it doesn't require extra programs >> that generate random data, nor external files. It's even the default case >> when /dev/urandom does not exist. What is the downside? > > None as far as I can see: > No new options.
A new option to tell shred to use its internal PRNG might make sense -- or maybe some special syntax for the FILE in --random-source=FILE. Though adding a new option sounds cleaner. > Relatively small change to optionally seed from /dev/urandom (once is enough). Just seed from the existing interface, according to defaults or from the --random-source-specified file. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
