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util/random.lua @ 12186:7f25ac9d8f0d

mod_cron: Allow for a small amount of timer drift If the timer activates a bit early then a task might be just a few seconds short of being allowed to run. This would run such a task rather than wait another hour. The value 0.5% chosen so that a weekly task does not run an entire hour earlier than last time.
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Sat, 15 Jan 2022 09:09:24 +0100
parent 10016:af8c514e5cf7
child 12446:e54b8a5e35ad
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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 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";
};