On 19/07/14 20:26, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > I think that using sysctl for non-management functionality is wrong. > If this feature is for the libraries and applications, and not for > system management and introspection utilities, it should be normal > syscall.
If this is only to seed the arc4random in userland (with ~256 bytes or so), it would be just like OpenBSD getentropy(2)? Just yesterday, something very similar is proposed for Linux, called getrandom(2): http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2014/07/18/329 Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain [email protected]
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