Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934585AbaGQQMS (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:12:18 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:45372 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933807AbaGQQMQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:12:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:12:15 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-abi@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, beck@openbsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call Message-ID: <20140717161215.GA14951@infradead.org> References: <1405588695-12014-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1405588695-12014-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 05:18:15AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > The getrandom(2) system call was requested by the LibreSSL Portable > developers. It is analoguous to the getentropy(2) system call in > OpenBSD. What's the reason to not implement exactly the same system call OpenBSD does? Having slightly different names and semantics for the same functionality is highly annoying. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/