Have you ever been sitting at your computer, doing something interesting with Linux, and been wishing that you had more sources of random-looking (but not actually random) data for your program? /dev/zero is fast, but it's so... predictable. /dev/urandom has lots of entropy, but meh.
Enter /dev/pi. It's irrationally better.
You'll need kernel sources and a reasonably-modern (2.6 or above, tested up to
4.9.13). Just type make, then insmod devpi.ko. This will create a device
node at /dev/pi, which is only accessible by root. Feel free to use udev or
whatever else to change its permissions.
This is a Hackathon project from yelp. Probably best to leave it alone for the time being. We'll update this section Soon™.
This code is license under the GNU General Public License, Version 2. The full text of this license is available under LICENSE.txt
- James Brown mailto:r@rglzr.net
- Evan Klitzke mailto:evan@eklitzke.org