Re: [PATCH -v5] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call

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On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> ERRORS
> 	EINVAL		An invalid flag was passed to getrandom(2)
> 
> 	EFAULT		buf is outside the accessible address space.
> 
> 	EAGAIN		The requested entropy was not available, and
> 			getentropy(2) would have blocked if GRND_BLOCK flag
> 			was set.
> 
> 	EINTR		While blocked waiting for entropy, the call was
> 			interrupted by a signal handler; see the description
> 			of how interrupted read(2) calls on "slow" devices
> 			are handled with and without the SA_RESTART flag
> 			in the signal(7) man page.

Should we add E<SOMETHING> to be able to deny access to GRND_RANDOM or some
future extension ?

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