Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 5 authors, 2014-07-30

Re: [PATCH -v5] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Date: 2014-07-24 15:18:30
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On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
ERRORS
	EINVAL		An invalid flag was passed to getrandom(2)

	EFAULT		buf is outside the accessible address space.

	EAGAIN		The requested entropy was not available, and
			getentropy(2) would have blocked if GRND_BLOCK flag
			was set.

	EINTR		While blocked waiting for entropy, the call was
			interrupted by a signal handler; see the description
			of how interrupted read(2) calls on "slow" devices
			are handled with and without the SA_RESTART flag
			in the signal(7) man page.
Should we add E<SOMETHING> to be able to deny access to GRND_RANDOM or some
future extension ?

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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