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: OpenBSD 4.8 and before had /dev/urandom giving random numbers, but /dev/random giving only errors. (This was because /dev/random was a reserved device, and /dev/srandom of OpenBSD was like /dev/random of Linux.) So /dev/urandom was better than /dev/random for OpenBSD. This has changed with OpenBSD 4.9 (from May 2011); now /dev/random also gives random numbers. So if some example on Rosetta Code uses /dev/random, I will not care to change it to /dev/urandom. --[[User:Kernigh|Kernigh]] 04:47, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
feels like this is all outdated now. please, read my comment below! 😘 --[[User:Cregox|cregox]] ([[User talk:Cregox|talk]]) 11:13, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
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