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Re: [PATCH] Add getrandom implementation [BZ #17252]
- From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 23:58:25 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add getrandom implementation [BZ #17252]
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On 06/23/2016 07:20 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
getrandom support in glibc is requested rather often.
As a (mostly) application developer I'd like to second those requests.
If glibc provided getrandom, I expect that it would be used by many GNU
applications, e.g., GNU Emacs.