Samuel Thibault, le Tue 17 Jan 2012 19:55:56 +0100, a écrit : > Sebastian Ramacher, le Tue 17 Jan 2012 19:51:10 +0100, a écrit : > > Do you have a pointer to the relevant part of POSIX, by any chance? I > > couldn't > > find anything. Are /dev/random and /dev/urandom even part of POSIX? > > They are not, but
(read.html) > “The value returned may be less than nbyte if the number of bytes left > in the file is less than nbyte, if the read() request was interrupted by > a signal, or if the file is a pipe or FIFO or special file and has fewer > than nbyte bytes immediately available for reading.” > > The latter is exactly our case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
