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authorKim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>2019-05-18 18:51:25 +0200
committerKim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>2019-05-18 18:51:25 +0200
commitc42ccf1bccbc1dc70975edf9a3b866f7d6ac2892 (patch)
tree01ff1fc47ba0dbe948bb7f124872698fc8586498 /util
parentutil.random: Handle unlikely read errors from /dev/urandom (see #1313) (diff)
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util.random: Coerce error to string (thanks waqas)
In theory this could happen in an EOF condition, which should be impossible with a read from /dev/urandom.
Diffstat (limited to 'util')
-rw-r--r--util/random.lua2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/util/random.lua b/util/random.lua
index 8ae06b492..51f2747d4 100644
--- a/util/random.lua
+++ b/util/random.lua
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ local urandom, urandom_err = io.open("/dev/urandom", "r");
local function bytes(n)
local data, err = urandom:read(n);
if not data then
- error("Unable to retrieve data from secure random number generator (/dev/urandom): "..err);
+ error("Unable to retrieve data from secure random number generator (/dev/urandom): "..tostring(err));
end
return data;
end