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Rollup merge of rust-lang#132048 - mustartt:aix-random-impl, r=workingjubilee

AIX: use /dev/urandom for random implementation

On AIX, we can poll `/dev/urandom` for cryptographically secure random output to implement `fill_bytes` because we don't have equivalent syscalls like other platforms. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.3?topic=files-random-urandom-devices
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rust-timer authored Oct 25, 2024
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion library/std/src/random.rs
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Expand Up @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ use crate::sys::random as sys;
/// Vita | `arc4random_buf`
/// Hermit | `read_entropy`
/// Horizon | `getrandom` shim
/// Hurd, L4Re, QNX | `/dev/urandom`
/// AIX, Hurd, L4Re, QNX | `/dev/urandom`
/// Redox | `/scheme/rand`
/// RTEMS | [`arc4random_buf`](https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/bsp-howto/getentropy.html)
/// SGX | [`rdrand`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDRAND)
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions library/std/src/sys/random/mod.rs
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Expand Up @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ cfg_if::cfg_if! {
mod horizon;
pub use horizon::fill_bytes;
} else if #[cfg(any(
target_os = "aix",
target_os = "hurd",
target_os = "l4re",
target_os = "nto",
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