linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH, RFC] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call

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Message-ID: <1883713.E4uoxDXDyt@caliban.sf-tec.de>
Date:	Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:36:45 +0200
From:	Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-abi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, beck@...nbsd.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call

Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> DESCRIPTION
> 
> 	The system call getrandom() fills the buffer pointed to by buf
> 	with up to buflen random bytes which can be used to seed user
> 	space random number generators (i.e., DRBG's) or for other
> 	cryptographic processes.  It should not be used Monte Carlo
> 	simulations or for other probabilistic sampling applications.

The "for" looks misplaced, shouldn't this be "for Monte Carlo simulations or 
other ..."?

Greetings,

Eike
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