On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM Mingye Wang [off-list ref] wrote:

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Does /dev/urandom block when reading with read(2) before the pool is

ready?  I assume it blocks.

From what I've heard it does not. Working on other comments.

Done working on the review comments, but git send-email is not working
for me again (it accepts no proxy settings and tunnels are flakey;
worse, it doesn't save my multi-sentence edited heading, or my
in-reply to string which I need to copy again, or the recipient
list...). I apologize but I am sending it as an attachment.

I am sending only the revised version of the patch you commented on
(the one that touches three files, random.{4,7}, getrandom.2). You
might notice that this patch is much larger. This is because when
editing the table I noticed that there's really no reason to keep the
"Pool" column around for 5.6+, but removing it also felt off. In the
end I just made two separate tables, but with identical cell-width
settings.

Speaking of cell-width settings, the existing version was not filling
the entire screen, which contravenes what man-pages(7) says about
using lbx. Adding an "x" does make it look nicer too.

(I have no idea whether this is the fourth version, but it's
definitely after the third and five seems too many. In any case, I
will be incrementing this number in future patch submissions to keep
things navigable.)

Regards,
Mingye Wang (Artoria2e5)