Re: [RFC PATCH] advapi32: Use Windows APIs to read /dev/urandom.

[Gabriel Ivăncescu]

On 04/09/2020 15:56, Paul Gofman wrote:
> On 9/4/20 15:49, Gabriel Ivăncescu wrote:
> > On 04/09/2020 14:15, Hans Leidekker wrote:
> >
> > Another idea would be to use the Linux syscall directly, with inline 
> > asm, which should work from PE too. Right?
>
> Please, no. While we do not emulate Win syscalls in mainstream Wine, 
> there are patches for that (which do that for some cases) in Proton and 
> Staging. There is a chance Linux kernel will get some new api which will 
> allow us to emulate Windows syscalls universally. I suppose making 
> native syscalls from PE code should be a big no-no.

Interesting, how does it differentiate syscalls from PE code and 
syscalls from a unix library?