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add getentropy function

based loosely on patch by Hauke Mehrtens; converted to wrap the public
API of the underlying getrandom function rather than direct syscalls,
so that if/when a fallback implementation of getrandom is added it
will automatically get picked up by getentropy too.
master
Rich Felker 8 years ago
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82f176803a
  1. 1
      include/unistd.h
  2. 31
      src/misc/getentropy.c

1
include/unistd.h

@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ int acct(const char *);
long syscall(long, ...);
int execvpe(const char *, char *const [], char *const []);
int issetugid(void);
int getentropy(void *, size_t);
#endif
#ifdef _GNU_SOURCE

31
src/misc/getentropy.c

@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
#include <sys/random.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <errno.h>
int getentropy(void *buffer, size_t len)
{
int cs, ret;
char *pos = buffer;
if (len > 256) {
errno = EIO;
return -1;
}
pthread_setcancelstate(PTHREAD_CANCEL_DISABLE, &cs);
while (len) {
ret = getrandom(pos, len, 0);
if (ret < 0) {
if (errno == EINTR) continue;
else break;
}
pos += ret;
len -= ret;
ret = 0;
}
pthread_setcancelstate(cs, 0);
return ret;
}
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