On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda
<acamari@verlet.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:23 AM, James Hozier <guitarscn1@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> # dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sd1c &
>> dd: /dev/random: Input/output error
>> 0+0 records in
>> 0+0 records out
>> 0 bytes transferred in 0.000 secs (0 bytes/sec)
>> #
>>
>> But /dev/urandom (dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sd1c &) works fine. Is
/dev/random not
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>> supposed to be used for some reason or something?
>>
>>
>
> man(4):
>
> B  B  /dev/random B  B This device is reserved for future support of
hardware
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> B  B  B  B  B  B  B  B  B  B random generators.
>

Duh, meant random(4)...