> Hi Sven, Hi Ralph, Thank you for your fast response! >> [...] > Does looking at existing uses of it help? > > http://lxr.linux.no/ident?i=get_random_bytes Yes, it did. If I understand things correctly, 'void get_random_bytes(void *buf, int nbytes)' is the exported kernel interface of 'extract_entropy'. It fills '*buf' with numbers from a pool of random numbers. The number of the numbers (I know, it sounds stupid...) that are put into '*buf' is defined by 'nbytes'. I'm a little bit confused about the fact that '*buf' is defined as 'void *buf'. If '*buf' is filled up with numbers why isn't it defined as 'int' or something like that? For being sure I use 'get_random_bytes' in a correct way, I would like to ask if somebody could post which parameters I have to fill in if I want to get an integer 'x' with random numbers and let's say the whole thing 3 bytes long. Is it really int x; get_random_bytes(x, 3); ? Thanks in advance Sven - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
