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This is strictly bad. getrandom was fine as it was, it's not the issue with the kernel if people don't read the explicitly documented man page on it. This is no

This is strictly bad. getrandom was fine as it was, it's not the issue with the kernel if people don't read the explicitly documented man page on it. This is now changing behaviour, breaking the god damn userspace which is exactly 100% what the kernel shouldn't be doing.

webkike 7y ago
Indeed. I don't see how the solution to this problem isn't just to patch gdm.
- ac29 7y ago
  Because the kernel has a policy of not introducing changes that break userspace, even if userspace is doing something weird.
  - loeg 7y ago
    Changing the semantics of getrandom(flags=0) breaks a lot of userspace ABI.
  - webkike 7y ago
    yeah, this breaks userspace. It's much easier to argue userspace is already broken under the current definition