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util/random.lua @ 12863:891edd1ebde6 0.12

util.startup: Close state on exit to ensure GC finalizers are called Ensures a last round of garbage collection and that finalizers are called. Fixes things like proper closing of SQLite3 state. There are more calls to os.exit() but most of them exit with an error or in a case where a final GC sweep might not matter as much. It would be nice if this was the default. Calling util.statup.exit() everywhere may be sensible, but would be more involved, requiring imports everywhere.
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Sun, 22 Jan 2023 14:45:47 +0100
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";
};