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[Conrad Meyer]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 8:23 AM, Konstantin Belousov
<kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 08:03:16AM -0700, Conrad Meyer wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 3:33 AM, Konstantin Belousov
>> > Libraries must not abort the application.
>> > Esp. libc.
>>
>> What do you propose instead?  while (1); ?  I don't see that as
>> obviously better.
>
> Return the error to caller, as all, well most, correct library functions
> do.

The abort() in case of ENOSYS was proposed by delphij at .  It is
intended for users that getentropy() not fail.  Another possible
fallback is to use the kern.arandom sysctl.  Would this be amenable to
you?

Thanks,
Conrad