• Mickey (10/10) May 23 2016 Hi,
• qznc (6/16) May 23 2016 This getrandom is not a function, but a syscall. You should be

Mickey <asdf nomail.org> writes:

Hi,
I'd like to get some unpredictable random data from Linux' 
urandom pool. The simple way to do this is reading from 
/dev/urandom. Opening a file, however, is undesirable as it 
introduces multiple points of failure.
In C I'd use:

#include <linux/random.h>
int getrandom(void *buf, size_t buflen, unsigned int flags);

How can I call this function from D in a simple and clean way?
Thanks for your help!

qznc <qznc web.de> writes:

On Monday, 23 May 2016 at 08:49:18 UTC, Mickey wrote:
 Hi,
 I'd like to get some unpredictable random data from Linux' 
 urandom pool. The simple way to do this is reading from 
 /dev/urandom. Opening a file, however, is undesirable as it 
 introduces multiple points of failure.
 In C I'd use:

 #include <linux/random.h>
 int getrandom(void *buf, size_t buflen, unsigned int flags);

 How can I call this function from D in a simple and clean way?
 Thanks for your help!

This getrandom is not a function, but a syscall. You should be 
able to use it via this syscall-d package.

https://code.dlang.org/packages/syscall-d

Also, such questions should be posted to "Learn": 
http://forum.dlang.org/group/learn