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

[Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>]

On 09/08/2016 03:01 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Sep 08 2016, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > I have retained the __getrandom symbol mangling.  The justification for
> > that is that getrandom is a fairly common name.  Application code might
> > use it for something else entirely and interpose their definition, so that
> > libraries cannot rely on it doing the right thing.  I think the mangling
> > is justified because it is hard to spot that getrandom is broken due to
> > interposition.  As <sys/random.h> is a new header, the macro will be
> > exposed to few applications.
>
> It makes it impossible to take the address of the function, though.

It does.  Do you have a better suggestion to achieve the same effect?

Thanks,
Florian