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On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 10:50:08PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On 22 Oct 2000, Michael Graff wrote:
> > > Will that give us random(3) -> random(2)?
> >=20
> > No more than we have md5(2)  :)
>=20
> and rijndael_*(2)?
>=20
>=20
> > A syscall for that would be a bad idea.
>=20
> Why - because passing the ammount of data between userland and kernel and
> back is too much overhead?

Partially. Even more: the number of context switches needed for a function
that can be done in userland without problems.

Regards,
	-is

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