Re: Inquiry about the removal of flag O_NONBLOCK on /dev/random

Guozihua (Scott)
2022-07-19T08:07:12Z

> (I don't know why O_NONBLOCK stopped being recognized *before* the entropy pool
> has been initialized; it's either an oversight, or it was decided it doesn't
> matter. Probably the latter, since I can't think of a real use case for using
> O_NONBLOCK on /dev/random.)

Does this mean that we expect all users of /dev/random to block until it
is initialized?

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GUO Zihua