> For a blocking fd, read(2) has always blocked until some data is
> available. There has never been a guarantee, for any driver, that
> a read(2) will return the full amount of bytes requested.
I know. Still leaves lot's of people that assume that reading /dev/random
will return data, or will block.
I've seen lots of programs that will assume that if we request x bytes
from /dev/random it will return x bytes.
> There is no need to document this... man read(2) ;-)
>
> Jeff
Igmar
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