1 files changed, 55 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstd/rt/sched.rs b/src/libstd/rt/sched.rs
index cbffec51cc9..004dab8d73a 100644
--- a/src/libstd/rt/sched.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/rt/sched.rs
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ impl Scheduler {
             cleanup_job: None,
             run_anything: run_anything,
             friend_handle: friend,
-            rng: XorShiftRng::new(),
+            rng: new_sched_rng(),
             idle_callback: None,
             yield_check_count: 0,
             steal_for_yield: false
@@ -844,6 +844,60 @@ impl ClosureConverter for UnsafeTaskReceiver {
     fn to_fn(self) -> &fn(&mut Scheduler, ~Task) { unsafe { transmute(self) } }
 }
 
+// On unix, we read randomness straight from /dev/urandom, but the
+// default constructor of an XorShiftRng does this via io::file, which
+// relies on the scheduler existing, so we have to manually load
+// randomness. Windows has its own C API for this, so we don't need to
+// worry there.
+#[cfg(windows)]
+fn new_sched_rng() -> XorShiftRng {
+    XorShiftRng::new()
+}
+#[cfg(unix)]
+#[fixed_stack_segment] #[inline(never)]
+fn new_sched_rng() -> XorShiftRng {
+    use libc;
+    use sys;
+    use c_str::ToCStr;
+    use ptr::RawPtr;
+    use vec::MutableVector;
+    use iter::Iterator;
+
+    // XXX: this could use io::native::file, when it works.
+    let file = do "/dev/urandom".with_c_str |name| {
+        do "r".with_c_str |mode| {
+            unsafe { libc::fopen(name, mode) }
+        }
+    };
+    if file.is_null() {
+        rtabort!("could not open /dev/urandom for reading.")
+    }
+
+    let mut seeds = [0u32, .. 4];
+    loop {
+        let nbytes = do seeds.as_mut_buf |buf, len| {
+            unsafe {
+                libc::fread(buf as *mut libc::c_void,
+                            sys::size_of::<u32>() as libc::size_t,
+                            len as libc::size_t,
+                            file)
+            }
+        };
+        rtassert!(nbytes == seeds.len() as libc::size_t);
+
+        if !seeds.iter().all(|x| *x == 0) {
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+
+    // XXX: do we need to guarantee that this is closed with a finally
+    // block (is that even possible without a scheduler?), or do we
+    // know that the only way that we can fail here is `abort`ing?
+    unsafe {libc::fclose(file);}
+
+    XorShiftRng::new_seeded(seeds[0], seeds[1], seeds[2], seeds[3])
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod test {
     extern mod extra;