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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/VBox/Runtime/r3/posix/rand-posix.cpp b/src/VBox/Runtime/r3/posix/rand-posix.cpp
index f394d149..1d1725f1 100644
--- a/src/VBox/Runtime/r3/posix/rand-posix.cpp
+++ b/src/VBox/Runtime/r3/posix/rand-posix.cpp
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
*/
/*
- * Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Oracle Corporation
+ * Copyright (C) 2006-2012 Oracle Corporation
*
* This file is part of VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), as
* available from http://www.virtualbox.org. This file is free software;
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
-#include <sys/fcntl.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#ifdef _MSC_VER
# include <io.h>
@@ -57,7 +56,10 @@ static DECLCALLBACK(void) rtRandAdvPosixGetBytes(PRTRANDINT pThis, uint8_t *pb,
ssize_t cbRead = read(pThis->u.File.hFile, pb, cb);
if ((size_t)cbRead != cb)
{
- ssize_t cTries = RT_MIN(cb, 256);
+ /* S10 has been observed returning 1040 bytes at the time from /dev/urandom.
+ Which means we need to do than 256 rounds to reach 668171 bytes if
+ that's what demanded by the caller (like tstRTMemWipe.cpp). */
+ ssize_t cTries = RT_MAX(256, cb / 64);
do
{
if (cbRead > 0)