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

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 16:31:10 +0200
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] getrandom system call wrapper [BZ #17252]
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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>).


Florian

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