This avoids making a huge number of getrandom system calls during initialization. The init CSPRNG is unmapped before initialization finishes and these are still reseeded from the OS. The purpose of the independent CSPRNGs is simply to avoid the massive performance hit of synchronization and there's no harm in doing it this way. Keeping around the init CSPRNG and reseeding from it would defeat the purpose of reseeding, and it isn't a measurable performance issue since it can just be tuned to reseed less often.
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