21 Oct
2013
21 Oct
'13
14:30
"Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a. Dimstar"
/dev/random is not an 'endless' buffer and as such, once the end is reached, dd stops copying.
/dev/random is not special wrt. short reads. Any device can return them. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org