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Commit aab9e9de authored by Simon Tatham's avatar Simon Tatham
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[Support,Windows] Tolerate failure of CryptGenRandom

Summary:
In `Unix/Process.inc`, we seed a random number generator from
`/dev/urandom` if possible, but if not, we're happy to fall back to
ordinary pseudorandom strategies, like the current time and PID.

The corresponding function on Windows calls `CryptGenRandom`, but it
//doesn't// have a fallback if that strategy fails. But `CryptGenRandom`
//can// fail, if a cryptography provider isn't properly initialized, or
occasionally (by our observation) simply intermittently.

If it's reasonable on Unix to implement traditional pseudorandom-number
seeding as a fallback, then it's surely reasonable to do the same on
Windows. So this patch adds a last-ditch use of ordinary rand(), using
much the same strategy as the Unix fallback code.

Reviewers: hans, sammccall

Reviewed By: hans

Subscribers: hiraditya, llvm-commits

Tags: #llvm

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D77553
parent 4fc59a46
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