Whenever I look up switching Java to using /dev/urandom from /dev/random most sources mention it should be specified as /dev/./urandom as a workaround for a bug in Java. I wonder if this still necessary for Java 8 and up. Bug description references earlier versions of Java and most sources that reference /dev/./urandom are not fresh either.
When I run lsof on a java process it shows both /dev/urandom and /dev/random are opened by Java and the number of open [u]random files stays roughly the same regardless of securerandom.source configuration setting and/or -Djava.security.egd argument and whether '/./' is present on the file path or not.
So my question is whether the workaround of inserting '/./' into the path is still required with the new versions of Java?
