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Re:Myths about /dev/urandom (2014) by JoshTriplett on Thursday January 05, 2017 @08:31PM (#13333193)
True, but never pass GRND_RANDOM or GRND_NONBLOCK.
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Re:Myths about /dev/urandom (2014) by Gaelan on Friday January 06, 2017 @01:56AM (#13334479)
NONBLOCK just returns an error code instead of blocking. No harm in that, AFIAK.
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Re:Myths about /dev/urandom (2014) by marcosdumay on Friday January 06, 2017 @09:35AM (#13336434)
Just wait until people start using the EAGAIN value in keys.
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Re:Myths about /dev/urandom (2014) by zrm on Friday January 06, 2017 @12:01AM (#13334094)
Why do these flags exist if they should never be used?
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Re:Myths about /dev/urandom (2014) by marcosdumay on Friday January 06, 2017 @09:37AM (#13336450)
There are probably good uses for them.

But unless you are doing something very tightly integrated with Linux, you should just ignore them.

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