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A comment on The getrandom(2) system call was requested by the LibreSSL Portable developers. Parent comment
> The getrandom(2) system call is a superset of getentropy(2).
> The reason for the additional flags is that I'm trying to solve more problems than just getentropy()'s raison d'etre.
And you can implement getentropy(2) on top of getrandom(2) if you so desire, which they plan to do in glibc.
http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2014/07/17/682
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> The getrandom(2) system call is a superset of getentropy(2).
> The reason for the additional flags is that I'm trying to solve more problems than just getentropy()'s raison d'etre.
And you can implement getentropy(2) on top of getrandom(2) if you so desire, which they plan to do in glibc.
http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2014/07/17/682