Does urandom share the same entropy of random?

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Does the entropy pool /dev/random used the same to /dev/urandom?

I want to

mknod /dev/random 1 9

to replace the slow random, I think the current entropy is randomly enough, if urandom is based on the same entropy, and all succeed random numbers are generated based on that entropy, I don't think there'll be any vulnerable.

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