The patch clarifies when blocking may occur while calling
getrandom().
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Theodore Ts'o confirmed the bug described in
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/29/16
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Kernel 3.17 introduces a new system call getrandom(2).
The man page in this patch is based on the commit message by
Theodore Ts'o and suggestions by Michael Kerrisk.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Michael Kerrisk