On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 2:52 PM Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > getrandom() will never "consume entropy" in a way that will block any > users of getrandom(). Yes, this is true for any common and sane use. And by that I just mean that we do have GRND_RANDOM, which currently does exactly that entropy consumption. But it only consumes it for other GRND_RANDOM users - of which there are approximately zero, because nobody wants that rats nest. Linus