From: Carl Ellison <cme@TIS.COM>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 95 08:18:02 PDT
To: jsw@netscape.com
Subject: Re: netscape NSRANDFILE compatible with /dev/random ?
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>From: "Jeff Weinstein" <jsw@netscape.com>
>Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 00:40:41 -0700

>> What happens if NSRANDFILE is set to /dev/random ?
>> will netscape try to read an infinite number of random bytes ?
>
>  In the current patch it will read up to 1 megabyte before stopping.
>In 2.0 I will add a way to specify a size.  As a temporary hack you
>could use 'dd' to get the number of bytes you want into a file, then
>remove the file once netscape had started up.

or you can define a named pipe file (on UNIX at least) which
runs /dev/random through dd.