On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 5:57 PM Alejandro Colomar via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ahh, I didn't connect the dots the other day! We don't need to wait for glibc. > libbsd already provides arc4random on GNU/Linux systems, so I can already > recommend using arc4random to seed srand(3). > > I'll prepare a patch... > I would suggest avoiding that, as it suffers from all the problems previously discussed on this list , on the relevant arc4random thread tl;dr , it can't be safe without kernel support, as you need to know when to drop the buffer. (on fork, on resume plus on $deity knows condition for which there is no kernel notification about)
