[tor-commits] [tor/release-0.3.2] Tweaks to strings in 24500

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commit 779e4b9dcf850770a7c30104f714f4a59c2955a8
Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Dec 5 12:09:57 2017 -0500

    Tweaks to strings in 24500
---
 changes/ticket24500 | 4 ++--
 src/common/crypto.c | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/changes/ticket24500 b/changes/ticket24500
index 0f1778d46..b49b7a555 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 7f034ee94..380f038f4 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));
       }
 



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