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Re: [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:39:10 +0200

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> How about the attached.
...
>>From 1e775072c2181679a088794dc872dc78a41a7606 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:42:15 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] shred,sort,shuf: don't use /dev/urandom by default
>
> Suggestion from Steven Schveighoffer at:
> http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?6797
> to greatly speed up the random passes done by shred.
> * gl/lib/randread.c: Default to using the internal
> pseudorandom generator, rather than reading /dev/urandom
> * src/shred.c (usage): remove mention of /dev/urandom
> * src/shuf.c (usage); ditto
> * src/sort.c (usage): ditto
> * doc/coreutils.text: Document the new behaviour
> for aquiring random data.

Looks fine.  thanks!




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