[$] The long road to getrandom() in glibc

The GNU C library (glibc) 2.25 release isexpected to be available at the beginning of February; among the new featuresin this release will be a wrapper for the Linux getrandom() system call. One mightwell wonder why getrandom() is only appearing in this release,given that kernel support arrived with the 3.17 release in 2014 and thatthe glibc projectis supposed to be more receptive tonew features these days. A look at the history of this particular change highlights some of the reasons why getting newfeatures into glibc is still hard.