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Message237102

Author	vstinner
Recipients	700eb415, Arfrever, alex, anand.jeyahar, christian.heimes, josh.r, jwilk, neologix, pitrou, vstinner
Date	2015-03-03.02:04:15
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Message-id	<1425348257.63.0.160018665876.issue22181@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Commit in the Linux kernel: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c6e9d6f38894798696f23c8084ca7edbf16ee895 -- Here is a patch to use the new getrandom() syscall of Linux 3.17 in the Python function os.urandom(). The function falls back to reading /dev/urandom if getrandom() is not supported (returns ENOSYS at runtime). On my Linux 3.18, the EINTR path is never taken. But I was able to test it manually by setting flags to GRND_RANDOM (2) and injecting many signals using signal.setitimer(): see my http://bugs.python.org/issue23285#msg237100

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Commit in the Linux kernel:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c6e9d6f38894798696f23c8084ca7edbf16ee895

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Here is a patch to use the new getrandom() syscall of Linux 3.17 in the Python function os.urandom().

The function falls back to reading /dev/urandom if getrandom() is not supported (returns ENOSYS at runtime).

On my Linux 3.18, the EINTR path is never taken. But I was able to test it manually by setting flags to GRND_RANDOM (2) and injecting many signals using signal.setitimer(): see my http://bugs.python.org/issue23285#msg237100

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