Oh the joy of not reading the thread. > The getrandom(2) system call is a superset of getentropy(2). > The reason for the additional flags is that I'm trying

Oh the joy of not reading the thread. > The getrandom(2) system call is a superset of getentropy(2). > The reason for the additional flags is that I'm trying to solve more problems than just getentropy()'s raison d'etre. And you can implement getentropy(2) on top of getrandom(2) if you so desire, which they plan to do in glibc. http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2014/07/17/682 http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2014/07/17/682