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util/random.lua @ 12578:10bb58ad5583

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>
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";
};