On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 05:18:15AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > The getrandom(2) system call was requested by the LibreSSL Portable > developers. It is analoguous to the getentropy(2) system call in > OpenBSD.
What's the reason to not implement exactly the same system call OpenBSD does? Having slightly different names and semantics for the same functionality is highly annoying. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
