Providing guaranteed access to random numbers has been a recent example of a new, badly needed, but fairly simple syscall. With getrandom(), you avoid the compl

Providing guaranteed access to random numbers has been a recent example of a new, badly needed, but fairly simple syscall. With getrandom(), you avoid the complexities of open/read/close and its associated error handling. https://lwn.net/Articles/606141/ https://lwn.net/Articles/606141/