> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 13:21:21 +0100 > From: Kamil Rytarowski <ka...@netbsd.org> > > On 11.01.2021 02:25, Taylor R Campbell wrote: > > Many of you have no doubt noticed that a lot more things hang waiting > > for entropy than used to on machines without hardware random number > > generators (even as we've added a bunch of new drivers for HWRNGs) -- > > e.g., python, firefox. > > Can we overload the ENOSYS return value and return it for CPUs without > hardware assisted random number generator? This way we certainly catch > real bugs in software that do not handle ENOSYS anyway.
How does that detect real bugs? How does it improve anything?
