Werner Koch writes:
> On Thu, 11 May 2000, Andreas Pommer wrote:
>
> > That seems to be the answer. One possible solution would be to skip the
> > select() if the fact is known that the device does not block.
>
> We can't do that because we should be somewhat sure about how much
> entropy we got.
As the author has invited comments and suggestions, I have forwarded Andreas P's reply.