linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v5] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call

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Message-ID: <53D1967A.3060609@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:27:54 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
CC:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v5] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call

On 07/24/2014 01:54 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> Or that someone writes userspace code that gets -EPERM/-EACCESS on
> getrandom with GRND_RANDOM and falls back to something worse than
> getrandom w/o GRND_RANDOM.
> 

-ENXIO?

	-hpa


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