Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: 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. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26839> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
