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/*
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 * Derived from DevRandomSeedGenerator which has this copyright notice
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 *    Copyright 2006-2009 Daniel W. Dyer
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package org.apache.mahout.common;

import com.google.common.io.ByteStreams;
import com.google.common.io.Closeables;
import com.google.common.io.LimitInputStream;
import org.uncommons.maths.random.SeedException;
import org.uncommons.maths.random.SeedGenerator;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * RNG seed strategy that gets data from {@literal /dev/urandom} on systems that provide it (e.g.
 * Solaris/Linux).  If {@literal /dev/random} does not exist or is not accessible, a {@link
 * SeedException} is thrown.  The point of pulling from /dev/urandom instead of from /dev/random
 * is that /dev/random will block if it doesn't think it has enough entropy.  In most production
 * applications of Mahout, that really isn't necessary.
 */
public final class DevURandomSeedGenerator implements SeedGenerator {

    private static final File DEV_URANDOM = new File("/dev/urandom");

    /**
     * @return The requested number of random bytes, read directly from {@literal /dev/urandom}.
     * @throws SeedException If {@literal /dev/urandom} does not exist or is not accessible
     */
    @Override
    public byte[] generateSeed(int length) throws SeedException {
        FileInputStream in = null;
        try {
            in = new FileInputStream(DEV_URANDOM);
            return ByteStreams.toByteArray(new LimitInputStream(in, length));
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            throw new SeedException("Failed reading from " + DEV_URANDOM.getName(), ex);
        } catch (SecurityException ex) {
            // Might be thrown if resource access is restricted (such as in
            // an applet sandbox).
            throw new SeedException("SecurityManager prevented access to " + DEV_URANDOM.getName(), ex);
        } finally {
            Closeables.closeQuietly(in);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "/dev/urandom";
    }
}