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| author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2017-12-05 12:09:57 -0500 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2017-12-05 12:09:57 -0500 |
| commit | 779e4b9dcf850770a7c30104f714f4a59c2955a8 (patch) | |
| tree | dd78d910b70c9f0559cabfdf92fb1150fb801b93 | |
| parent | 313360e6e6aa6bc56e1bc3661b68df5279b6b4bc (diff) | |
| download | tor-779e4b9dcf850770a7c30104f714f4a59c2955a8.tar.gz tor-779e4b9dcf850770a7c30104f714f4a59c2955a8.zip | |
Tweaks to strings in 24500
| -rw-r--r-- | changes/ticket24500 | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/common/crypto.c | 8 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/changes/ticket24500 b/changes/ticket24500 index 0f1778d46d..b49b7a5551 100644 --- a/changes/ticket24500 +++ b/changes/ticket24500 @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ - o Code simplification and refactoring: - - Making more useful log messages for errno errors on getrandom() call. + o Minor features (logging): + - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes ticket 24500. diff --git a/src/common/crypto.c b/src/common/crypto.c index 7f034ee949..380f038f42 100644 --- a/src/common/crypto.c +++ b/src/common/crypto.c @@ -2877,12 +2877,12 @@ crypto_strongest_rand_syscall(uint8_t *out, size_t out_len) /* Useful log message for errno. */ if (errno == ENOSYS) { - log_warn(LD_CRYPTO, "This warning is caused by ENOSYS error." + log_warn(LD_CRYPTO, "Can't get entropy from getrandom(). " " You are running a version of Tor built to support" - " getrandom(), but the kernel is too old and doesn't" - " implement this function."); + " getrandom(), but the kernel doesn't implement this" + " implement this function--probably because it is too old?"); } else { - log_warn(LD_CRYPTO, "Can't get entropy from getrandom(). %s error.", + log_warn(LD_CRYPTO, "Can't get entropy from getrandom(): %s.", strerror(errno)); } |