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> It took years for glibc to provide getrandom. A tangent: Robert Clausecker, the guy who submitted the proposal for adding tcgetwinsize() and SIGWINCH to POSI
by Joker_vD 2y ago
> It took years for glibc to provide getrandom.
A tangent: Robert Clausecker, the guy who submitted the proposal for adding tcgetwinsize() and SIGWINCH to POSIX, apparently did it because it "is probably the easiest way to get glibc to implement a feature you want" [0].
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42041467 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42041467