The separate blocking pool is going away. Start by ignoring GRND_RANDOM in getentropy(2). This should not materially break any API. Any code that worked without this change should work at least as well with this change.
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| @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ struct rand_pool_info { · 47 unmodified lines | ||
| 48 | 48 | * Flags for getrandom(2) |
| 49 | 49 | * |
| 50 | 50 | * GRND_NONBLOCK Don't block and return EAGAIN instead |
| 51 | − * GRND_RANDOM Use the /dev/random pool instead of /dev/urandom | |
| 51 | + * GRND_RANDOM No effect | |
| 52 | 52 | * GRND_INSECURE Return non-cryptographic random bytes |
| 53 | 53 | */ |
| 54 | 54 | #define GRND_NONBLOCK 0x0001 |