| Date | Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:12:15 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, RFC] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call |
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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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