Messages in this thread | | | From | Till Smejkal <> | Date | Mon, 21 Jul 2014 22:21:26 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH -v4] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call |
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Hi,
On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Theodore Ts'o wrote: [...] > If the GRND_RANDOM bit is not set, then the /dev/urandom pool > will be used. Unlike using read(2) to fetch data from > /dev/urandom, if the urandom pool has not been sufficiently > initialized, getrandom(2) will block or return -1 with the > errno set to EGAIN if the GRND_NONBLOCK bit is set in flags. ^^^^^ Small typo: this should be EAGAIN.
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Regards
Till Smejkal
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