library/std/src/sys/random/unix_legacy.rs


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//! Random data from `/dev/urandom`
//!
//! Before `getentropy` was standardized in 2024, UNIX didn't have a standardized
//! way of getting random data, so systems just followed the precedent set by
//! Linux and exposed random devices at `/dev/random` and `/dev/urandom`. Thus,
//! for the few systems that support neither `arc4random_buf` nor `getentropy`
//! yet, we just read from the file.

use crate::fs::File;
use crate::io::Read;
use crate::sync::OnceLock;

static DEVICE: OnceLock<File> = OnceLock::new();

pub fn fill_bytes(bytes: &mut [u8]) {
    DEVICE
        .get_or_try_init(|| File::open("/dev/urandom"))
        .and_then(|mut dev| dev.read_exact(bytes))
        .expect("failed to generate random data");
}