Tarek Ziadé added the comment: > If os.urandom() doesn't fail, something else will fail soon after.
the random pool can be exhausted, but this is not "soon after" I think. In Linux and Mac OS X, ulimit -n defaults to 512 and 256. It's very easy to reach that limit if you write a web app that uses this API. > I agree with Antoine. Exhausting the FDs is not the problem, Do you suggest that we should not use os.urandom on high load ? Opening an FD on every call sounds under optimal, I am not seeing any drawback not to try to optimize that API. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18756> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
