Re: short read from /dev/urandom

[H. Peter Anvin]

Matt Mackall wrote:
> What about signals to a process blocked on /dev/random (which also has no
> documented mention of being interruptible by signals)?
>
> Not handling short reads is always a bug.

Agreed it is.  All I was saying was that I could see a *small* exception 
(like PIPE_BUF) for /dev/urandom.

Sleeping would be utterly unacceptable.

	-hpa
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