How to use /dev/random or urandom in C?

Question

I want to use /dev/random or /dev/urandom in C. How can I do it? I don\'t know how can I handle them in C, if someone knows please tell me how. Tha

Answer 1

There are other accurate answers above. I needed to use a FILE* stream, though. Here's what I did...

int byte_count = 64;
char data[64];
FILE *fp;
fp = fopen("/dev/urandom", "r");
fread(&data, 1, byte_count, fp);
fclose(fp);