Larry Hastings added the comment:

> I wonder what we should do on Linux if /dev/urandom is unavailable and 
> getrandom() would block.

I don't think that happens.

getrandom() actually supports two flags.  The flag GRND_RANDOM tells it "behave 
like /dev/random".  If you don't pass in GRND_RANDOM, it behaves like 
"/dev/urandom".  So it's hard to imagine that you could have getrandom() and 
not have /dev/urandom.

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