> From: Brandon Perry [mailto:bperry.volat...@gmail.com] > > Does the file have to be written to in real time? > > Why not perform buffered writes to a memory region, then flush to disk > when a satisfiable amount of entropy has been met?
Oh - it's not like that. It's transactional. One time, gather a bunch of entropy, and write it to disk to create the initial file. Subsequent times, read the file from disk, and change it. It's a very fast file open / read / write operation, for the purpose of benefitting from the initial entropy gathering, but every time the file is read it must be changed. _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
