// 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 }