Re: [PATCH v2] arc4random: simplify design for better safety

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Hi Adhemerval,

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 09:34:57AM -0300, Adhemerval Zanella Netto wrote:
> kernel newer than 3.17) it means some syscall filtering, and I am not sure
> we should need to actually handle it.

One thing to keep in mind is that people who use CUSE-based /dev/urandom
implementations might not like this, as it means they'd also have to
intercept getrandom() rather than just ENOSYS'ing it. But maybe that's
fine. I don't know of anyone actually doing this in the real world at
the moment.

Jason



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