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net.websocket.frames: Prefer Lua 5.2 built-in bit module over LuaJIT version When running on Lua 5.2 this makes sense since bit32 is usually already loaded. It's sensible to prefer this going forward in case of incompatibilities between the two variants.
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Thu, 29 Nov 2018 16:53:22 +0100
parents 292f61d9d30a
children 5d2f7144fa12
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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)
	return urandom:read(n);
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";
};