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view util/random.lua @ 10921:6eb5d2bb11af
util-src: Use the luaL_pushfail API added in Lua 5.4 to highlight all failure conditions
Actually just an alias of pushnil, but it does make it more obvious
where the failure conditions are, which is good for readability.
| author | Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> |
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| date | Sun, 07 Jun 2020 02:25:56 +0200 |
| parents | af8c514e5cf7 |
| children | 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"; };
