[ale] A little math

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Wed Feb 10 23:01:06 EST 2010


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


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