Re: Waiting for Randot (or: nia and maya were right and I was wrong)

[Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 13:21:21 +0100
> From: Kamil Rytarowski <kamil%netbsd.org@localhost>
> 
> On 11.01.2021 02:25, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> > Many of you have no doubt noticed that a lot more things hang waiting
> > for entropy than used to on machines without hardware random number
> > generators (even as we've added a bunch of new drivers for HWRNGs) --
> > e.g., python, firefox.
> 
> Can we overload the ENOSYS return value and return it for CPUs without
> hardware assisted random number generator? This way we certainly catch
> real bugs in software that do not handle ENOSYS anyway.

How does that detect real bugs?  How does it improve anything?