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Cache the file descriptor for /dev/urandom to avoid needing to reopen…
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… it for every call.

Patch by Mike Mammarella.

BUG=none
TEST=none

Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/144010


git-svn-id: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src@19352 0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98
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deanm@chromium.org committed Jun 26, 2009
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#include "base/rand_util.h"

#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#include "base/file_util.h"
#include "base/lazy_instance.h"
#include "base/logging.h"

namespace {

// We keep the file descriptor for /dev/urandom around so we don't need to
// reopen it (which is expensive), and since we may not even be able to reopen
// it if we are later put in a sandbox. This class wraps the file descriptor so
// we can use LazyInstance to handle opening it on the first access.
class URandomFd {
public:
URandomFd() {
fd_ = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
CHECK(fd_ >= 0) << "Cannot open /dev/urandom: " << errno;
}

~URandomFd() {
close(fd_);
}

int fd() const { return fd_; }

private:
int fd_;
};

base::LazyInstance<URandomFd> g_urandom_fd(base::LINKER_INITIALIZED);

} // namespace

namespace base {

uint64 RandUint64() {
uint64 number;

int urandom_fd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
CHECK(urandom_fd >= 0);
int urandom_fd = g_urandom_fd.Pointer()->fd();
bool success = file_util::ReadFromFD(urandom_fd,
reinterpret_cast<char*>(&number),
sizeof(number));
CHECK(success);
close(urandom_fd);

return number;
}
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