Re: [PATCH -v4] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call

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Hi,

On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
[...]
> 	If the GRND_RANDOM bit is not set, then the /dev/urandom pool
> 	will be used.  Unlike using read(2) to fetch data from
> 	/dev/urandom, if the urandom pool has not been sufficiently
> 	initialized, getrandom(2) will block or return -1 with the
> 	errno set to EGAIN if the GRND_NONBLOCK bit is set in flags.
                 ^^^^^
Small typo: this should be EAGAIN.

[...]

Regards

Till Smejkal
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