From af5723c71e3efbfe60266162ebb5d07b45d72725 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pádraig Brady Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:42:15 +0100 Subject: shred,sort,shuf: don't use /dev/urandom by default Suggestion from Steven Schveighoffer at: http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?6797 to greatly speed up the random passes done by shred. * gl/lib/randread.c: Default to using the internal pseudorandom generator, rather than reading /dev/urandom * src/shred.c (usage): remove mention of /dev/urandom * src/shuf.c (usage); ditto * src/sort.c (usage): ditto * doc/coreutils.text: Document the new behaviour for aquiring random data. --- THANKS | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'THANKS') diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index 11f43ac68..6a918a429 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS @@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ Steve McIntyre steve@einval.com Steve Ward planet36@gmail.com Steven G. Johnson stevenj@alum.mit.edu Steven Mocking ufo@quicknet.nl +Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy@yahoo.com Steven P Watson steven@magelico.net Stuart Kemp skemp@peter.bmc.com Stuart Shelton stuart@shelton.me -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf