Russ Cox

The cost to the project in general is continued maintenance and testing of code paths working around the lack of features from the (relatively) newer kernels. We don't do a...

Talking to @FiloSottile about #66821, it sounds like moving to 3.17 (~2014) as the minimum would let us avoid needing to open /dev/urandom ever, because 3.17 added getrandom(2). That would...

This proposal has been added to the [active column](https://go.dev/s/proposal-status#active) of the proposals project and will now be reviewed at the weekly proposal review meetings. — rsc for the proposal review...

Thanks for the added details. I think we can say 3.10+getrandom is fine too.

Have all remaining concerns about this proposal been addressed? The proposal is to require Linux 3.17 starting in Go 1.24, with the exception that Linux 3.10 patched with an added...

Based on the discussion above, this proposal seems like a **[likely accept](https://go.dev/s/proposal-status#likely-accept)**. — rsc for the proposal review group The proposal is to require Linux 3.17 starting in Go 1.24,...

No change in consensus, so **[accepted](https://go.dev/s/proposal-status#accepted)**. 🎉 This issue now tracks the work of implementing the proposal. — rsc for the proposal review group The proposal is to require Linux...

If we need to drop back to 3.2 to match Rust and glibc, with the understanding that it will mean keeping some crypto code that opens /dev/urandom for a while...

After discussion with @FiloSottile we've agreed to drop down to Linux 3.2 as the minimum version for future versions of Go, matching glibc and Rust. crypto/rand will have a fallback...

This proposal has been added to the [active column](https://go.dev/s/proposal-status#active) of the proposals project and will now be reviewed at the weekly proposal review meetings. — rsc for the proposal review...