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Re: getrandom and getentropy



Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> We don't warn people about unavailable of 127.0.0.1/:: during very early
> boot and a number of other issues either. If your application is running
> during system initialisation, you are supposed to be somewhat aware of
> the limitations in that case.

That's nonsense.  If the man page promisies "high quality entropy",
that needs to apply no matter when the application is run.
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Andreas Gustafsson, gson%gson.org@localhost


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