问题
One of the purposes of the library of which I am developing is to retrieve a specified amount of bytes from a file, in this specific case I am wishing for access to /dev/random to retrieve entropy based random sequences.
My main issue with fread is that it will hang indefinitely when waiting for more entropy, and this is unwanted. My next choice would have been wrapping fread with feof to take bytes in chunks, then I could at least provide percentages complete for a better experience, although from what I could gather iteration 1, 2, 3, 4..'s bytes will be hard to track to equal exactly the amount needed.
Is there a method in a C standard that allows for what I am looking for, exact amount wanted and in chunks? If I were to look for timeouts of this, would threading the data request be a good option to look at?
回答1:
Define "standard". Do you mean the ISO C standard? POSIX? Linux standards base (LSB)? For POSIX, the read call lets you specify the size of the buffer that you are trying to read. You can use pselect or poll to determine if there are bytes available to be read, with a timeout instead of blocking. On Linux, it is possible to use the "FIONREAD" ioctl call to obtain the exact number of bytes available for reading.
That said, you should ask yourself if you need that level of entropy. You might (or might not) be able to get away with reading from "/dev/urandom". Of course, you would have to determine if that is the case.
回答2:
Try this
Here is the man page for a function I think will solve your problem.
http://www.manpagez.com/man/3/fgets/
I just saw that fread wasnt working, fgets reads a certain number of byes from file stream into buffer
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5508437/trouble-implementing-a-stable-method-of-retrieving-n-bytes-from-file