netscape NSRANDFILE compatible with /dev/random ?

[Carl Ellison]

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

>> 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.