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view util/random.lua @ 13264:9b720c38fee8
mod_cron: Revert bbd3ac65640d
Maybe it is better to run daily and weekly tasks 'now' on the theory
that people set these things up during times that are appropriate for
maintenance already, so the same time next day or next week might be
fine for periodic cleanup.
| author | Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> |
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| date | Sun, 30 Jul 2023 13:03:40 +0200 |
| parents | 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, "prosody.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"; };
