Re: [PATCH, RFC] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2014-07-17 16:12:18
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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.