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Re: [PATCH v7] getrandom system call wrapper [BZ #17252]

On 11/29/2016 06:53 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:

On 11/29/2016 07:54 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote:

Would it make sense for getentropy
to loop internally rather than returning a short read?


FWIW, that is what I was planning when implementing a more-portable
version of getentropy (I guess that's its name now?) for Gnulib,


How are you going to avoid interposing the implementation in glibc?

Thanks,
Florian
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