Message 253206 - Python tracker

Message253206

Author	vstinner
Recipients	matejcik, socketpair, vstinner
Date	2015-10-20.06:08:40
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I knew the subtle difference between reading from /dev/urandom and getrandom() syscall: the syscall hangs until /dev/urandom is feeded with enough entropy. It should be documented in Whats New, os.urandom and maybe also random doc. Not only python 3.5 was affected by the issue.

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I knew the subtle difference between reading from /dev/urandom and
getrandom() syscall: the syscall hangs until /dev/urandom is feeded with
enough entropy. It should be documented in Whats New, os.urandom and maybe
also random doc. Not only python 3.5 was affected by the issue.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2015-10-20 06:08:40	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, matejcik, socketpair
2015-10-20 06:08:40	vstinner	link	issue25420 messages
2015-10-20 06:08:40	vstinner	create