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Re: The perils of security tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philipp =?iso-8859-1?q?G=FChring?=)
Tue Jun 3 11:29:58 2008
From: Philipp =?iso-8859-1?q?G=FChring?= <pg@futureware.at>
To: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 15:09:31 +0200
Cc: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <8763sycz19.fsf@wheatstone.g10code.de>
X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Hi,
> It is not an implementaion issue but a requirement of the C standard.
> To avoid buffering use
>
> setvbuf (fp, NULL, _IONBF, 0);
>
> right after the fopen.
Ah! Thanks a lot!
Ok, I think that should be written into the man-pages of /dev/random and=20
fgetc/fread and other related howtos.
Best regards,
Philipp G=FChring
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