Message 267898 - Python tracker

Message267898

Author Colm Buckley
Recipients Colm Buckley, Lukasa, Theodore Tso, alex, doko, dstufft, larry, lemburg, martin.panter, matejcik, ned.deily, pitti, python-dev, rhettinger, skrah, thomas-petazzoni, vstinner, ztane
Date 2016-06-08.21:26:27
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Larry -

Regardless of the behavior of os.urandom (and 'import random'), is it agreed that the current state of _PyRandom_Init is acceptable for 3.5.2?

The current behavior (as of 9de508dc4837) is that it will never block on Linux, but could still block on other OS if called before /dev/urandom is initialized. We have not determined a satisfactory solution for other operating systems. Note that no other OS have reported a problem 'in the wild', probably because of their extreme rarity in VM/container environments and the lack of Python in their early init sequence.

Colm
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2016-06-08 21:26:27Colm Buckleysetrecipients: + Colm Buckley, lemburg, rhettinger, doko, vstinner, larry, matejcik, ned.deily, alex, skrah, python-dev, martin.panter, ztane, dstufft, pitti, Lukasa, thomas-petazzoni, Theodore Tso
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