havelib: Fix for Solaris 11 OpenIndiana and Solaris 11 OmniOS.
[gnulib.git] / lib / getentropy.c
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1 /* Fill a buffer with random bytes.
2 Copyright 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
7 (at your option) any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
17 /* Written by Paul Eggert. */
19 #include <config.h>
21 #include <unistd.h>
23 #include <errno.h>
24 #include <sys/random.h>
26 /* Overwrite BUFFER with random data. BUFFER contains LENGTH bytes.
27 LENGTH must be at most 256. Return 0 on success, -1 (setting
28 errno) on failure. */
29 int
30 getentropy (void *buffer, size_t length)
32 char *buf = buffer;
34 if (length <= 256)
35 for (;;)
37 ssize_t bytes;
38 if (length == 0)
39 return 0;
40 while ((bytes = getrandom (buf, length, 0)) < 0)
41 if (errno != EINTR)
42 return -1;
43 if (bytes == 0)
44 break;
45 buf += bytes;
46 length -= bytes;
49 errno = EIO;
50 return -1;