On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Mateusz Guzik wrote:

I believe the idea here is to have reliable source for reseeding after
fork.

I don't think that's quite right; there are issues in reliably detecting that fork has occurred and a reseed performed.
Always getting random bits from the kernel avoids the need to detect fork.

-Ben
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