On 22.07.25 13:11, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> getrandom() is Linux-specific, while getentropy() is specified by POSIX
> (since 2024). It was originally introduced by OpenBSD 5.6 in 2014, and
> was added to macOS 10.12 in 2016, glibc 2.25 (same as getrandom()) in
> 2017, musl 1.1.20 and FreeBSD 12.0 in 2018, and NetBSD 10.0 in 2024
>
> Sources:
>
> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/getentropy.html
> https://dotat.at/@/2024-10-01-getentropy.html
>
> So I think it's more worthwhile to add support for getentropy() than
> getrandom().
The POSIX description of getentropy() says:
"The intended use of this function is to create a seed for other
pseudo-random number generators."
So using getentropy() for generating the random numbers that are passed
back to the application code would appear to be the wrong use.
