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Re:Fixing Getrandom() by webkike on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @09:05PM (#21132569)
Indeed. I don't see how the solution to this problem isn't just to patch gdm.
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Re:Fixing Getrandom() by ac29 on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @12:51AM (#21133529)
Because the kernel has a policy of not introducing changes that break userspace, even if userspace is doing something weird.
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Re:Fixing Getrandom() by loeg on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @02:49AM (#21133930)
Changing the semantics of getrandom(flags=0) breaks a lot of userspace ABI.
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Re:Fixing Getrandom() by webkike on Saturday October 05, 2019 @10:56PM (#21169528)
yeah, this breaks userspace. It's much easier to argue userspace is already broken under the current definition
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