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

[Zack Weinberg]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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>).

With compatible semantics?

zw