/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */ /* A program that reads /dev/random to produce a seed for srand(3). */ #include #include int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int fd, ok, seed = 0; fd = open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY); if (fd < 0) { perror("/dev/random"); return 1; } ok = read(fd, &seed, sizeof seed); if (ok > 0) printf("%d\n", seed); else perror("/dev/random"); close(fd); return 0; }