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| -rw-r--r-- | util/random.lua | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/util/random.lua b/util/random.lua index 51f2747d..6782d7fa 100644 --- a/util/random.lua +++ b/util/random.lua @@ -14,7 +14,11 @@ 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): "..tostring(err)); + 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 |