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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add getrandom implementation [BZ #17252]
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On 06/23/2016 07:20 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> getrandom support in glibc is requested rather often.

As a (mostly) application developer I'd like to second those requests. 
If glibc provided getrandom, I expect that it would be used by many GNU 
applications, e.g., GNU Emacs.