From 9b7e728ee8ddacad70cbf5bced36c8f72af65f38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Jeff R. Allen" Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 15:45:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] crypt/rand: update docs for Linux Update the docs to explain the code added in commit 67e1d400. Fixes #11831. Change-Id: I8fe72e449507847c4bd9d77de40947ded7f2ff9d Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12515 Reviewed-by: Dave Cheney --- src/crypto/rand/rand.go | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/crypto/rand/rand.go b/src/crypto/rand/rand.go index 4da3adb701..ee32fa0bd6 100644 --- a/src/crypto/rand/rand.go +++ b/src/crypto/rand/rand.go @@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ import "io" // Reader is a global, shared instance of a cryptographically // strong pseudo-random generator. +// // On Unix-like systems, Reader reads from /dev/urandom. +// On Linux, Reader uses getrandom(2) if available, /dev/urandom otherwise. // On Windows systems, Reader uses the CryptGenRandom API. var Reader io.Reader -- 2.50.0