>>>>> "Jason" == Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com> writes:
    Jason> On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 10:58:19PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:

    >> It might be nice for applications that want randomness to get it via a
    >> system call rather via /dev/urandom, but I'm not sure that a system call is
    >> better than a device.

    Jason> Um, hide it in a library call?

  Works for me.
  "real_random(3)"

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