From: "Jeff Weinstein" <jsw@netscape.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 95 00:45:16 PDT
To: Frank A Stevenson <frank@funcom.no>
Subject: Re: netscape NSRANDFILE compatible with /dev/random ?
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On Sep 27,  8:32am, Frank A Stevenson wrote:
> Subject: netscape NSRANDFILE compatible with /dev/random ?
> 
> 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.

	--Jeff



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