Messages in this thread | | | From | Florian Weimer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC v4 1/1] random: WARN on large getrandom() waits and introduce getrandom2() | Date | Sat, 21 Sep 2019 08:07:12 +0200 |
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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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