get amount of "entropy" in /dev/random ?

From: Yakov Lerner
Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - 11:26:07 EST


>From the userlevel, can I get an estimate of "amount of entropy"
in /dev/random, that is, the estimate of number of bytes
readable until it blocks ? Of course multiple processes
can read bytes and this would not be exact ... but still .. as an upper
boundary estimate ?

Thanks
Yakov
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