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1. Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 24-Jul-2022 01:31:37 UTC Bernie

   GNU C Library Finally Adds arc4random Functions For Linux

   https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Glibc-arc4random-Functions

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 24-Jul-2022 01:40:24 UTC Bernie

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     The arc4random functions have been present in Android's Bionic libc for a long time. I wasn't sure why glibc lacked them. But apparently, they were rejected in 2007:

     "glibc is no dumping ground for arbitrary code. The existing code is just [fine]. Put your code in separate libraries."

     From this quote alone, I could guess it came from Ulrich Drepper, the notoriously rude #GNU maintainer who pushed Debian to switch to a fork #glibc in 2009:
     https://devnull.li/~jerojasro/blog/posts/debian_forks_glibc__drepper_forks_debian/