linux熵池添加,使用RNDADDENTROPY将熵添加到/ dev/random

我有一个设备会产生一些噪音,我想将它添加到嵌入式Linux系统中/ dev/random设备的熵池中.

我正在阅读/ dev/random上的手册页,我真的不明白你传递给RNDADDENTROPY ioctl调用的结构.

RNDADDENTROPY

Add some additional entropy to the input pool, incrementing

the entropy count. This differs from writing to /dev/random

or /dev/urandom, which only adds some data but does not

increment the entropy count. The following structure is used:

struct rand_pool_info {

int entropy_count;

int buf_size;

__u32 buf[0];

};

Here entropy_count is the value added to (or subtracted from)

the entropy count, and buf is the buffer of size buf_size

which gets added to the entropy pool.

就是entropy_count在这种结构中,我加入的位数？为什么不总是这样buf_size * 8(假设buf_size是以字节为单位)？

另外为什么是buf零尺寸阵列？我该如何为它分配一个值？

感谢您的帮助!