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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC v4 1/1] random: WARN on large getrandom() waits and introduce getrandom2()
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* Linus Torvalds:

> Violently agreed. And that's kind of what the GRND_EXPLICIT is really
> aiming for.
>
> However, it's worth noting that nobody should ever use GRND_EXPLICIT
> directly. That's just the name for the bit. The actual users would use
> GRND_INSECURE or GRND_SECURE.

Should we switch glibc's getentropy to GRND_EXPLICIT? Or something
else?

I don't think we want to print a kernel warning for this function.

Thanks,
Florian

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