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

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Tue Nov 29 18:11:00 GMT 2016


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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