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[ale] A little math
- Subject: [ale] A little math
- From: brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:01:06 -0500
- In-reply-to: <-6753240179375994144@unknownmsgid>
- References: <[email protected]> <-6753240179375994144@unknownmsgid>
On 02/10/2010 10:43 PM, scott boss wrote:
> If you write something other than /dev/random (or urandom) then it
> will go much master.
>
> If you want to wipe the drive with random data, I have a better option
> for you...
If you like, I'll send you a patch to drivers/char/mem.c that creates
/dev/four. Whenever you read it, it returns four. This was chosen by a
fair dice roll and is guaranteed to be random.
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All the best,
Brian Pitts