[PATCH] Add getrandom implementation [BZ #17252]

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Fri Jun 10 22:40:00 GMT 2016


On Fri, 10 Jun 2016, Roland McGrath wrote:

> You need to start with rationale justifying the new nonstandard API and why
> it belongs in libc, let alone why it should litter a POSIX-standard header.

Also compare and contrast the BSD-compatible getentropy, which was also 
requested in the bug referenced.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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