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aquabeagle on Jan 7, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool

On OpenBSD:

    $ ls -l /dev/*random*
    lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel         7 Dec 10 15:05 /dev/random@ -> urandom
    crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   45,   0 Jan  6 15:30 /dev/urandom

JdeBP on Jan 7, 2020 [–]

That must be a recent change.

    $ ls -F /dev/*random*
    /dev/arandom  /dev/random   /dev/srandom  /dev/urandom
    $

ben_bai on Jan 7, 2020 | [–]

Deleted in 2017. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=151069089605712&w=2 you can delete arandom and srandom

Edit: better link

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