// 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. //go:build linux || freebsd || dragonfly || solaris package rand import ( "errors" "internal/syscall/unix" ) // maxGetRandomRead is platform dependent. func init() { altGetRandom = batched(getRandomBatch, maxGetRandomRead) } // If the kernel is too old 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 getRandomBatch(p []byte) (err error) { n, err := unix.GetRandom(p, 0) if n != len(p) { return errors.New("short read") } return err }