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executables: Reject Lua 5.1 early
Prevents attempting to load libraries that may no longer be found and
crashing with a traceback.
Platforms like Debian where multiple Lua versions can be installed at
the same time and 'lua' pointing to one of the installed interpreters
via symlinks, there's the possibility that prosody/prosodyctl may be
invoked with Lua 5.1, which will no longer have any of the rest of
Prosody libraries available to be require(), and thus would immediately
fail with an unfriendly traceback.
Checking and aborting early with a friendlier message and reference to
more information is better.
Part of #1600
author | Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> |
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date | Sat, 02 Jul 2022 17:27:39 +0200 |
parent | 12446:e54b8a5e35ad |
child | 12975:d10957394a3c |
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-- Prosody IM -- Copyright (C) 2008-2014 Matthew Wild -- Copyright (C) 2008-2014 Waqas Hussain -- -- This project is MIT/X11 licensed. Please see the -- COPYING file in the source package for more information. -- local ok, crand = pcall(require, "util.crand"); if ok and pcall(crand.bytes, 1) then return crand; end local urandom, urandom_err = io.open("/dev/urandom", "r"); local function bytes(n) local data, err = urandom:read(n); if not data then if err then error("Unable to retrieve data from secure random number generator (/dev/urandom): "..tostring(err)); else error("Secure random number generator (/dev/urandom) returned an end-of-file condition"); end end return data; end if not urandom then function bytes() error("Unable to obtain a secure random number generator, please see https://prosody.im/doc/random ("..urandom_err..")"); end end return { bytes = bytes; _source = "/dev/urandom"; };