Re: [PATCH, RFC -v2] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call

[Florian Weimer]

On 07/17/2014 11:38 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 	If the GRND_RANDOM flags bit is set, then draw from the
> 	/dev/random pool instead of the /dev/urandom pool.  The
> 	/dev/random pool is limited based on the entropy that can be
> 	obtained from environmental noise, so if there is insufficient
> 	entropy, the requested number of bytes may not be returned.
> 	If there is no entropy available at all, getrandom(2) will
> 	either block, or return an error with errno set to EAGAIN if
> 	the GRND_NONBLOCK bit is set in flags.

Can we get a GRND_INIT flag or something like that which means 
"block/return EAGAIN until the kernel pool is initialized"?  Thanks.

(See the previous discussion about pool initialization.)

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security
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