Use RAND_poll() for seeding randomness after fork().
Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Use RAND_poll() for seeding randomness after fork(). OpenSSL deprecated RAND_cleanup(), and OpenSSL 1.1.0 made it into a no-op. Replace it with RAND_poll(), per an OpenSSL community recommendation. While this has no user-visible consequences under OpenSSL defaults, it might help under non-default settings. Daniel Gustafsson, reviewed by David Steele and Michael Paquier. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9B038FA5-23E8-40D0-B932-D515E1D8F66A@yesql.se
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