Re: [PATCH -v4] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call

From: Till Smejkal
Date: Mon Jul 21 2014 - 16:21:36 EST


Hi,

On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
[...]
> If the GRND_RANDOM bit is not set, then the /dev/urandom pool
> will be used. Unlike using read(2) to fetch data from
> /dev/urandom, if the urandom pool has not been sufficiently
> initialized, getrandom(2) will block or return -1 with the
> errno set to EGAIN if the GRND_NONBLOCK bit is set in flags.
^^^^^
Small typo: this should be EAGAIN.

[...]

Regards

Till Smejkal
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