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

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 04:27:36PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

I think that people might do:

try getrandom(GRND_RANDOM)
fall back to /dev/random
fall back to something intensely stupid

We want them to at least attempt the fallback from GRND_RANDOM to !GRND_RANDOM.

We can't legislate against stupidity.  Seriously, the best way to do
this is to write a good userspace library and encourage application
writers to use it.

Regards,

						- Ted