From c7110ea1655a2ad73b579b749666ad1cf4d28d7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ceesjan Luiten <ceesjan@ytec.nl>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:50:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Seed Lua's number generator on nginx worker init

---
 docs/server-config.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/server-config.rst b/docs/server-config.rst
index a916956..ae13193 100644
--- a/docs/server-config.rst
+++ b/docs/server-config.rst
@@ -40,6 +40,24 @@ and add it to server logs using the following snippets:
                           '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                           '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for" '
                           'request_id=$request_id';
+
+        init_worker_by_lua_block {
+            -- Solution that should work on any OS, but might not
+            -- be random enough:
+            -- math.randomseed(os.time())
+
+            -- Solution that should work on Unix-like systems
+            -- Random number up to 4294967296 (256^4)
+            local urandom = assert(io.open("/dev/urandom", "rb"))
+            local seed = urandom:read(4)
+            urandom:close()
+            local seed_as_number = 0
+            for i = 1, #seed do
+              seed_as_number = 256 * seed_as_number + seed:byte(i)
+            end
+            math.randomseed(seed_as_number)
+        }
+
         ...
     }