jwakely added subscribers: fweimer, dalias.
jwakely added inline comments.

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Comment at: libcxx/trunk/src/random.cpp:29
+#if defined(_LIBCPP_USING_GETENTROPY)
+#include <sys/random.h>
+#elif defined(_LIBCPP_USING_DEV_RANDOM)
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mcgrathr wrote:
> jwakely wrote:
> > jwakely wrote:
> > > musl only declares `getentropy` in `<unistd.h>` not `<sys/random.h>`. 
> > > Glibc declares it in both. Should `<unistd.h>` also be included when 
> > > `_LIBCPP_USING_GETENTROPY` is defined, so it can work more portably?
> > I suppose it doesn't really matter, since `_LIBCPP_USING_GETENTROPY` is 
> > currently only defined for fuchsia and wasi, which both declare 
> > `getentropy` in `<sys/random.h>`.
> FWIW, if there is an emerging norm to declare getentropy in <unistd.h> then 
> Fuchsia's libc can add it to our <unistd.h> and there's no real problem 
> relying on that in libc++ sources within about a week of when we land that 
> change in Fuchsia's trunk.
> 
@fweimer added it to glibc's unistd.h for compatibility with existing BSD code:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17252#c9

Maybe @dalias can confirm whether musl did it for the same reason?

Does it make sense to "standardize" on declaring `getentropy` in `unistd.h`?


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