REOPENED 170096
[WTF][Linux] Use getrandom once unsupported Linux kernels disappear 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170096
Summary [WTF][Linux] Use getrandom once unsupported Linux kernels disappear
Yusuke Suzuki
Reported 2017-03-25 02:09:18 PDT
We can use getrandom after 3.17. I think Ubuntu 14.04's kernel is a bit old...
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Michael Catanzaro
Comment 1 2017-03-25 07:55:39 PDT
Kernel is not the limiting factor here, but glibc, which took a very long time to add support for getrandom(). Unless you want to use getrandom() via syscall() directly.
Yusuke Suzuki
Comment 2 2017-03-25 08:04:30 PDT
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #1) > Kernel is not the limiting factor here, but glibc, which took a very long > time to add support for getrandom(). Unless you want to use getrandom() via > syscall() directly. If so, syscall(SYS_getrandom, buf, length, 0) should work :)
Yusuke Suzuki
Comment 3 2017-03-28 12:28:23 PDT
OK, so, I'll do this in RandomDevice patch. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 170095 ***
Yusuke Suzuki
Comment 4 2017-03-28 13:20:33 PDT
Buildbot seems not supporting SYS_getrandom.
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