[PATCH v3] getrandom system call wrapper [BZ #17252]

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Thu Sep 8 14:31:00 GMT 2016


On 09/08/2016 04:19 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
>>
>> If getrandom is ever standardized be POSIX this will have to be reverted
>> anyway.
>
> If we're worried about that, maybe the thin syscall wrapper should be
> called linux_getrandom?

Solaris has already adopted getrandom in userpsace, and uses this symbol 
(and also <sys/random.h>).

Florian



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