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diff --git a/results/scraper/launchpad-without-comments/1811758 b/results/scraper/launchpad-without-comments/1811758 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3dc652bf1 --- /dev/null +++ b/results/scraper/launchpad-without-comments/1811758 @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +virtio-rng backend should use getentropy() syscall when available + +According to https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/VirtIORNG the default backend for `virtio-rng-pci` is `/dev/random`. Alternately, the user can point it to a different backend file, like `/dev/urandom`. + +However, both of these files have suboptimal behavior in one way or another, as documented in `random(7)`. Instead, the default behavior should be to pull the requested octets from the `getrandom()` system call, if available, called with no flags set. \ No newline at end of file |