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From: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 15:10:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] getrandom system call wrapper [BZ #17252]
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
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On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 09/08/2016 04:39 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On 09/08/2016 04:19 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If we're worried about [POSIX], maybe the thin syscall wrapper should be
>>>> called linux_getrandom?
>>>
>>> Solaris has already adopted getrandom in userpsace, and uses this symbol
>>> (and also <sys/random.h>).
>>
>> With compatible semantics?
>
> Judging by the manual page, yes.

OK, then I have no objection to calling the function getrandom.  (I
haven't looked at the patch in detail, though.)

zw