Subject: Re: use of rnd(4) from within the kernel
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 10/07/2000 11:50:58 
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:42:43AM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:

 > 	tcp_new_iss() does not check the return value from rnd_extract_data(),
 > 	and assumes that we can get enough randomness from the function.
 > 	is it a safe thing to do?  if so, i'm happy.

"ANY" will return the requested number of bytes of data.

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