Re: /dev/one - why not /dev/repeat?
Michael Shields (shields@msrl.com)
24 Dec 1998 07:48:54 +0000
In article <3680A16F.3777D6A5@psychosis.com>,
Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com> wrote:
> Steve VanDevender wrote:
>
> > No. Stop it, all of you. There is absolutely no reason to make
> > a kernel device for this.
>
> There are several reasons, and I for one could have used it many times.
> The biggest reason of all is speed.
That's legitimate, if you have an application that really would be
substantially faster with a /dev/random. What is this app, and can
you show benchmarks?
--
Shields.
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