Basically the call never fails, always generating high quality random data
(especially the implementations based on Chacha* family, RC4 has
predictability issues), there is no need of a file descriptor.
On 22 November 2017 at 16:06, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> David CARLIER <devnexen(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I m not against as such that depends of the implementation but I ve seen
> in
> > quick glance it s RC4 ?
>
> More generally, why should we bother with an additional implementation?
> Is this better than /dev/urandom, and if so why?
>
> regards, tom lane
>