Timeline for Is it wrong to link /dev/random to /dev/urandom on Linux?
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| Nov 19, 2016 at 19:44 | comment | added | KalleMP - CoDidact fan | Interesting, if the difference is this pronounced then they should not be linked. Most other discussions eventually reach consensus of no difference after boot up but this behaviour might indicate a longer lasting difference. | |
| Oct 9, 2016 at 20:18 | review | Low quality posts | |||
| Oct 10, 2016 at 0:41 | |||||
| Oct 9, 2016 at 20:13 | comment | added | countermode | The question of the OP was: is there any known, practical and wrong side-effect of linking /dev/random to /dev/urandom on Linux systems as done by default on FreeBSD systems? | |
| Oct 9, 2016 at 20:09 | review | Late answers | |||
| Oct 9, 2016 at 20:13 | |||||
| Oct 9, 2016 at 19:51 | history | answered | Daniel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |