Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] vfs: Define new syscall getumask.

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 08:00:54PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Now, we could of course have __linux_getrandom() and make a weak alias
> for getrandom(), but I really don't understand the use case for
> exporting all the system calls.

If we do create a libinux library, I'd definitely want getrandom(2) to
be defined as getrandom(), and not as sys_getrandom() or
linux_getrandom().

For bonus points we could also define a OpenBSD compatible
getentropy() interface so that programs that were already written to
use the OpenBSD interface (and perhaps have a configure test for it
already) would get the benefits of the getrandom(2) system call
immediately.

						- Ted