From: "Jeff Weinstein" <jsw@netscape.com> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 00:40:41 -0700

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What happens if NSRANDFILE is set to /dev/random ? will netscape try to read an infinite number of random bytes ?

In the current patch it will read up to 1 megabyte before stopping. In 2.0 I will add a way to specify a size. As a temporary hack you could use 'dd' to get the number of bytes you want into a file, then remove the file once netscape had started up.

or you can define a named pipe file (on UNIX at least) which runs /dev/random through dd.