Article 5YJ90 /dev/random + /dev/urandom Unification May Be Revisited In The Future, Blocker Addressed

/dev/random + /dev/urandom Unification May Be Revisited In The Future, Blocker Addressed

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Originally attempted with Linux 5.18 were patches so /dev/urandom and /dev/random would behave exactly the same. That was dropped though due to not enough randomness at boot for some platforms like Arm 32-bit, Motorola m68k, Microblaze, Xtensa, and others. But then the change went in to opportunistically initialize /dev/random as a best-effort approach where it at least works nicely on x86/x86_64. The good news is that original unification effort may be re-visited in the future now that the original blocker issue has been addressed...
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