Message217425
| Author | vstinner |
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| Recipients | alex, benjamin.peterson, christian.heimes, dstufft, giampaolo.rodola, janssen, josh.r, ncoghlan, neologix, tshepang, vstinner |
| Date | 2014-04-28.21:51:59 |
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| Message-id | <1398721919.68.0.108868854694.issue21305@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
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Please don't backport this "feature". We had to wait 20 years before someone requested the feature, but only a few months before the first user reported an issue ("regression"?).
IMO it would be much better to use explicitly a random.SystemRandom instance which would keep the fd open, and only use it if you hit the bug (*many* threads calling os.urandom in parallel. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2014-04-28 21:51:59 | vstinner | set | recipients: + vstinner, ncoghlan, janssen, giampaolo.rodola, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson, alex, neologix, tshepang, dstufft, josh.r |
| 2014-04-28 21:51:59 | vstinner | set | messageid: <1398721919.68.0.108868854694.issue21305@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
| 2014-04-28 21:51:59 | vstinner | link | issue21305 messages |
| 2014-04-28 21:51:59 | vstinner | create | |