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Timothy Alexander 1ac029c0f6 Fix #19052 ; [backport:1.6.0] (#19053 )

* Fix #19052; [backport:1.6.0]

Adds a compile flag to avoid a getrandom syscall, fixing #19052.

This is neccesary when the getrandom syscall is missing, as noted in #19052, particularly in kernel versions < 3.17 when getrandom was introduced. Specifically relevant is this is missing from kernel 3.10, which is the supported kernel throughout RHEL 7 and CentOS 7, which is widely used at many organizations. Without this, versions of nim that include sysrand (i.e. versions >= 1.6.0) will not compile without modification, however with this change a compile flag may be used to fall back using /dev/urandom as done with any unknown Posix OS (preferred here as a fallback since it already supplies a cryptographically secure PRNG and existing code deals with entropy pool init, etc).

The change is placed behind a compile flag, as discussed in github ticket #19052 (summed up here):
* First, I can't seem to catch that a importc such as SYS_getrandom is declared without using it (the declared proc returns true, but compiler throws an undeclared identifier flag when referencing it).
* Second, it seemed preferable to be behaviorally explicit vs implicit when considering this is intended to be a cryptographically secure PRNG.
* Third, if I intend to compile on a kernel >= 3.17 while running the binary on at least one system < 3.17, I'll want to be able to target this without relying on a compile time determination if the getrandom syscall is available.

* Documenting compile flag for -d:nimNoGetRandom and adding changelog entry
Related to #19052 and comments in PR #19053. Also created a new changelog file since none currently exists.

Co-authored-by: Timothy Alexander <talexander@midwestlabs.com>
(cherry picked from commit dde556665a)

2021-11-03 15:05:32 +01:00

changelog_0_18_1.md

[backport] Fix spelling typos (#12755 )

2019-11-28 08:30:55 +01:00

changelog_0_19_0.md

use more .} (#18542 )

2021-07-20 20:12:15 +08:00

changelog_0_20_0.md

more changelog fixes

2019-06-06 08:57:50 +02:00

changelog_0_20_2.md

update changelogs [ci skip]

2019-07-17 21:20:28 +02:00

changelog_1_0_0.md

Revert "improvements for httpcore (#12228 )"

2019-09-23 19:06:55 +02:00

changelog_1_0_2.md

add changelog for v1.0.2

2019-10-23 14:35:31 +02:00

changelog_1_2_0.md

fix #14064 xmltree should allow create text node with raw text(non-es… (#14070 )

2020-04-22 19:46:55 +02:00

changelog_1_4_0.md

cosmetic fixes for the 1.4 changelog [ci skip]

2020-10-16 13:18:31 +02:00

changelog_1_6_0.md

changelog_1_6_0: mention breaking change in effect tracking (#18995 )

2021-10-15 09:10:27 +02:00

changelog_X_XX_X.md

followup #17700 put changelog in wrong file (#17729 )

2021-04-15 22:45:51 +02:00

changelog.md

Fix #19052 ; [backport:1.6.0] (#19053 )

2021-11-03 15:05:32 +01:00

readme.md

fixes #9376 : old changelogs should be kept instead of erased (#9428 )

2018-10-19 09:33:42 +02:00

readme.md

Update changelog

After each release, call:

git mv changelog.md changelogs/changelog_0_19_0.md # use correct version
cp changelogs/changelog_X_XX_X.md changelog.md
git add changelog.md

readme.md

Update changelog

Recent changelogs are saved here (with their git history)

Older changelogs are stored in https://github.com/nim-lang/website

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