> From: Jim Meyering 

> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > How about the attached.
> ...
> >>From 1e775072c2181679a088794dc872dc78a41a7606 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= 
> > Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:42:15 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] shred,sort,shuf: don't use /dev/urandom by default
> >
> > Suggestion from Steven Schveighoffer at:
> > http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?6797
> > to greatly speed up the random passes done by shred.
> > * gl/lib/randread.c: Default to using the internal
> > pseudorandom generator, rather than reading /dev/urandom
> > * src/shred.c (usage): remove mention of /dev/urandom
> > * src/shuf.c (usage); ditto
> > * src/sort.c (usage): ditto
> > * doc/coreutils.text: Document the new behaviour
> > for aquiring random data.
> 
> Looks fine.  thanks!

Also looks good for me, thanks for doing this!

-Steve






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