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

Just open the file for reading and then read data. In C++11 you may wish to use std::random_device which provides cross-platform access to such devices.