Stream: git-wasmtime

Topic: wasmtime / issue #5244 Avoid unconditional `getrandom` sy...

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bjorn3 commented on issue #5244:

It does reduce quality when forking processes or entire vm's. For cloning vm's acpi allows the virtual machine monitor to tell the vm that a clone has happened, which on linux causes the system csprng to be reseeded. See https://lwn.net/Articles/887207/

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Nov 10 2022 at 19:58):

alexcrichton commented on issue #5244:

Wasmtime hasn't really been written for fork-safety, and otherwise fork-safety seems like it would be part of the rand or cap-rand crate, if anything, so I'm going to go ahead and merge this.

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