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SubjectRe: [PATCH, RFC] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 05:18:15AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> The getrandom(2) system call was requested by the LibreSSL Portable
> developers. It is analoguous to the getentropy(2) system call in
> OpenBSD.

What's the reason to not implement exactly the same system call OpenBSD
does? Having slightly different names and semantics for the same
functionality is highly annoying.


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