New submission from STINNER Victor: The future Linux kernel 3.17 will have a new getrandom() syscall which avoids the need of a file descriptor: http://lwn.net/Articles/606141/
The file descriptor of os.urandom() causes perfomance issues and surprising bugs: #18756, #21207. I don't know when the function will land in the libc. OpenBSD 5.6 (not released yet) will also have a new getentropy() syscall. For Python 2.7, see also the PEP 466 and the issue #21305. ---------- messages: 225171 nosy: haypo priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: os.urandom() should use Linux 3.17 getrandom() syscall versions: Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22181> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
