Message267624
| Author | lemburg |
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| Recipients | Colm Buckley, alex, doko, larry, lemburg, martin.panter, matejcik, ned.deily, python-dev, rhettinger, skrah, thomas-petazzoni, vstinner, ztane |
| Date | 2016-06-07.11:31:47 |
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| Marked as misclassified | Yes |
| Message-id | <5756B09D.8020801@egenix.com> |
| In-reply-to | <1465298853.42.0.503828063338.issue26839@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
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On 07.06.2016 13:27, Alex Gaynor wrote: > > This doesn't look correct to me. Despite what the Linux maintainers insist, it's a _bug_ that /dev/urandom will return immediately if the system's entropy pool has never been seeded; one of the whole points of the getrandom syscall is that it has the correct behavior (which is the same behavior as BSDs). > > IMO the patch landed this morning should be reverted and it should be left as is. I'm with Victor and the others on this one. Practicality beats purity. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2016-06-07 11:31:47 | lemburg | set | recipients: + lemburg, rhettinger, doko, vstinner, larry, matejcik, ned.deily, alex, skrah, python-dev, martin.panter, ztane, thomas-petazzoni, Colm Buckley |
| 2016-06-07 11:31:47 | lemburg | link | issue26839 messages |
| 2016-06-07 11:31:47 | lemburg | create | |