On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 10:19 PM Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> wrote: > > The ideal solution would be able to use gcc function attributes and dyanmic > linking to do this at runtime - ie multiversion library. But this opens a set > of different problems like compiler versions and testing.
Detecting RDSEED at run time doesn't require any of that, but working around the possible absence of getentropy() does. However none of my proposed solutions, including dynamic linking was deemed suitable.. or something, so I gave up.