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A minor note: * Only FreeBSD symbolically links, and it does it in the other direction. urandom is the symbolic link to random. * OpenBSD has four distinct c
by JdeBP 7y ago
A minor note:
* Only FreeBSD symbolically links, and it does it in the other direction. urandom is the symbolic link to random.
* OpenBSD has four distinct character device files: random, arandom, srandom, and urandom.
* NetBSD (as of 2019) has two distinct character device files: random and urandom. They have different semantics from each other. https://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?rnd+4+NetBSD-current https://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?rnd+4+NetBSD-current
- aquabeagle 7y agoOn 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 7y agoThat must be a recent change. $ ls -F /dev/*random* /dev/arandom /dev/random /dev/srandom /dev/urandom $
- ben_bai 7y agoDeleted in 2017. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=151069089605712&w=2 https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=151069089605712&w=2 you can delete arandom and srandom Edit: better link