On Fri, 11 Feb 2022, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
+ * Reading from /dev/random and /dev/urandom both the same effect as + * calling getrandom(2) with flags=0. In earlier versions, however, + * they each had vastly different semantics and should therefore be + * avoided to prevent backwards compatibility issues.
If the end result "should be avoided", then why bother? IOW, how does this improve the ABI? I know you said it's a "panacea" but I'm afraid that's not clear to me and the patch description doesn't explain it.