On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:37 AM, Conrad Meyer <c...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 8:23 AM, Konstantin Belousov > <kostik...@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@. 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? > You should get a SIGSYS unless you've setup signal handlers for ENOSYS anyway, right? Warner _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
