Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754011AbaGUUVc (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:21:32 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f43.google.com ([74.125.82.43]:37276 "EHLO mail-wg0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750821AbaGUUVa (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:21:30 -0400 From: Till Smejkal X-Google-Original-From: Till Smejkal Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 22:21:26 +0200 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, beck@openbsd.org, deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org, "Theodore Ts'o" Subject: Re: [PATCH -v4] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call Message-ID: <20140721202125.GF1158@osiris> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, beck@openbsd.org, deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org, Theodore Ts'o References: <1405718127-30042-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1405718127-30042-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Theodore Ts'o wrote: [...] > If the GRND_RANDOM bit is not set, then the /dev/urandom pool > will be used. Unlike using read(2) to fetch data from > /dev/urandom, if the urandom pool has not been sufficiently > initialized, getrandom(2) will block or return -1 with the > errno set to EGAIN if the GRND_NONBLOCK bit is set in flags. ^^^^^ Small typo: this should be EAGAIN. [...] Regards Till Smejkal -- 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/