On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 04:27:36PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> I think that people might do:
> 
> try getrandom(GRND_RANDOM)
> fall back to /dev/random
> fall back to something intensely stupid
> 
> We want them to at least attempt the fallback from GRND_RANDOM to 
> !GRND_RANDOM.

We can't legislate against stupidity.  Seriously, the best way to do
this is to write a good userspace library and encourage application
writers to use it.

Regards,

                                                - Ted
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