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

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Message-ID: <3912417.mEOGY4YVAb@devpool02>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 2014 16:34:40 +0200
From:	Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v5] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call

Theodore Ts'o wrote:

It's me again, finding only one issue per cycle :/

> 	EAGAIN		The requested entropy was not available, and
> 			getentropy(2) would have blocked if GRND_BLOCK flag
> 			was set.

"if GRND_NONBLOCK flag was not set"

Eike
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