Re: getrandom and getentropy

To: Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>, tech-userlevel%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: getrandom and getentropy
From: Kamil Rytarowski <kamil%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:38:09 +0200

On 23.05.2020 02:38, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 01.05.2020 21:19, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
>> I propose that we additionally adopt getrandom and getentropy, two C
>> APIs the world is converging on.
> 
> I propose to import the getrandom code with the Linux semantics and
> integrate into compat_linux(8). More and more software expects that in
> place.
> 

Ping? Lack of getrandom() is a growing cost in our compat_linux layer.
Could we import it for the Linux compat purposes.

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