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Linux 6.11 Lands Support For getrandom() In The vDSO


Going back two years has been the effort for adding getrandom() to the vDSO in order to enhance the performance

Going back two years has been the effort for adding getrandom() to the vDSO in order to enhance the performance. Last week he sent in the code as part of the RNG updates pull request and today it was honored by Linus Torvalds. Great to see this milestone achieved so user-space can generate random bytes quickly and safely.

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