Re: [PATCH, RFC] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call
[Posted July 23, 2014 by jake]
| From: |
| Christoph Hellwig <hch-AT-infradead.org> |
| To: |
| Theodore Ts'o <tytso-AT-mit.edu> |
| Subject: |
| Re: [PATCH, RFC] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call |
| Date: |
| Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:12:15 -0700 |
| Message-ID: |
| <20140717161215.GA14951@infradead.org> |
| Cc: |
| linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-abi-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto-AT-vger.kernel.org, beck-AT-openbsd.org |
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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.
