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Re:Linux /dev/urandom and concurrency by ape4 on Friday April 18, 2014 @03:17PM (#7610779)
Why does he need so much pseudorandomness. And why use /dev/urandom directly. Maybe using the random library from the programming environment would make more sense.
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Re:Linux /dev/urandom and concurrency by frankfarmer on Friday April 18, 2014 @05:11PM (#7611354)
Simply initializing a curl handle causes the /dev/urandom read -- so a large number of parallel curl requests easily triggers this issue.
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Re:Linux /dev/urandom and concurrency by ape4 on Friday April 18, 2014 @08:45PM (#7612066)
Thanks for the reply.
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