2016-02-13 3:22 GMT+01:00 David Lang <[email protected]>: > I stumbled across this today, relevant to the item discovered recently > where rsyslog doesn't handle the case of /dev/urandom not being available > in a clean way. > > Thx, that is quite interesting. For our use case, however, I think it is too early now, because we need to have it in the kernel and so in major distributions. For now, I'll (soon) craft a patch that just errs out. But this syscall is a nice way forward once it is widely available.
Rainer > > https://lwn.net/Articles/606141/ > > A system call for random numbers: getrandom() > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
