/* Fill a buffer with random bytes. Copyright 2020-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ /* Written by Paul Eggert. */ #include #include #include #include /* Overwrite BUFFER with random data. BUFFER contains LENGTH bytes. LENGTH must be at most 256. Return 0 on success, -1 (setting errno) on failure. */ int getentropy (void *buffer, size_t length) { char *buf = buffer; if (length <= 256) for (;;) { ssize_t bytes; if (length == 0) return 0; while ((bytes = getrandom (buf, length, 0)) < 0) if (errno != EINTR) return -1; if (bytes == 0) break; buf += bytes; length -= bytes; } errno = EIO; return -1; }