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		taejo on July 18, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The getrandom(2) system call was requested by the ... The problem with that is that a library can't count on pthreads: the application might call clone directly, without going through the libc wrapper, which calls the atfork callbacks.

JoshTriplett on July 18, 2014 [–]

Very good point; pthread_atfork does not suffice. Thanks for the correction.

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