On 2022/7/14 15:33, Guozihua (Scott) wrote:
Hi Community,
Recently we noticed the removal of flag O_NONBLOCK on /dev/random by
commit 30c08efec888 ("random: make /dev/random be almost like
/dev/urandom"), it seems that some of the open_source packages e.g.
random_get_fd() of util-linux and __getrandom() of glibc. The man page
for random() is not updated either.
Correction: I mean various open source packages are still using
O_NONBLOCK flag while accessing /dev/random
Would anyone please kindly provide some background knowledge of this
flag and it's removal? Thanks!
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Best
GUO Zihua
