From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:12:15 -0700 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 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-abi@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, beck@openbsd.org To: Theodore Ts'o Return-path: 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 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1405588695-12014-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.