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Without a way to getentropy(2) [hint] that doesn't use file descriptors, it has no other secure choice but to raise(SIGKILL) in my opinion; a mere error might be overlooked, but continuing to run could expose secrets and keys, which is much worse than a DoS condition (anything in file-descriptor exhaustion when under attack is already being DoSsed). (It's turned off because coredumps could also do that locally.)


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