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.
