// 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/unix" ) func init() { altGetRandom = getRandomLinux } // If the kernel is too old (before 3.17) to support the getrandom syscall(), // unix.GetRandom will immediately return ENOSYS and we will then fall back to // reading from /dev/urandom in rand_unix.go. unix.GetRandom caches the ENOSYS // result so we only suffer the syscall overhead once in this case. // If the kernel supports the getrandom() syscall, unix.GetRandom will block // until the kernel has sufficient randomness (as we don't use GRND_NONBLOCK). // In this case, unix.GetRandom will not return an error. func getRandomLinux(p []byte) (ok bool) { n, err := unix.GetRandom(p, 0) return n == len(p) && err == nil }