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authorTianon Gravi <admwiggin@gmail.com>2015-01-15 11:54:00 -0700
committerTianon Gravi <admwiggin@gmail.com>2015-01-15 11:54:00 -0700
commitf154da9e12608589e8d5f0508f908a0c3e88a1bb (patch)
treef8255d51e10c6f1e0ed69702200b966c9556a431 /src/crypto/rand/rand_linux.go
parent8d8329ed5dfb9622c82a9fbec6fd99a580f9c9f6 (diff)
downloadgolang-upstream/1.4.tar.gz
Imported Upstream version 1.4upstream/1.4
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+// Copyright 2014 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package rand
+
+import (
+ "internal/syscall"
+ "sync"
+)
+
+func init() {
+ altGetRandom = getRandomLinux
+}
+
+var (
+ once sync.Once
+ useSyscall bool
+)
+
+func pickStrategy() {
+ // Test whether we should use the system call or /dev/urandom.
+ // We'll fall back to urandom if:
+ // - the kernel is too old (before 3.17)
+ // - the machine has no entropy available (early boot + no hardware
+ // entropy source?) and we want to avoid blocking later.
+ var buf [1]byte
+ n, err := syscall.GetRandom(buf[:], syscall.GRND_NONBLOCK)
+ useSyscall = n == 1 && err == nil
+}
+
+func getRandomLinux(p []byte) (ok bool) {
+ once.Do(pickStrategy)
+ if !useSyscall {
+ return false
+ }
+ n, err := syscall.GetRandom(p, 0)
+ return n == len(p) && err == nil
+}