reading /dev/urandom, /dev/random or /proc/kcore

[Steve Kargl]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 06:05:32PM +0100, samuel verstraete wrote:
> Hi list,
> I would like to be able to read the first few bytes of one of the
> following binary streams: /dev/urandom, /dev/random or /proc/kcore
> I then would convert it to integers and use it as a seed for the
> rand() function.
> 
> Is this possible?
> 

Yes, see Tobias email.

I have a possibly dumb question.  If you're going to open
and read from /dev/urandom or /dev/random, why would you
want to use the inferior RAND() prng implementation?

-- 
Steve