On 03/06/2017 05:19 PM, sarn wrote:
On Monday, 6 March 2017 at 10:12:09 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Excuse me if I'm asking a trivial question. Why not just seed it from
/dev/urandom? (or equivalent on non-Linux platforms. I know at least
Windows has an equivalent).
Shachar
One reason is that /dev/urandom isn't always available, e.g., in a
chroot. Sure, these are corner cases, but it's annoying when stuff like
this doesn't "just work".
I don't claim to be any sort of linux expert or anything, but doesn't
chroot have a reputation for being a bit of a finicky, leaky abstraction
anyway? I haven't really used them, but that's been my understanding...?
