Christian Heimes added the comment: Larry, /dev/urandom blocks on BSD when it hasn't been seeded yet. But it looks like we can use sysctl to fetch the seed state from kern.random.sys.seeded.
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=random&sektion=4 The software generator will start in an unseeded state, and will block reads until it is (re)seeded. This may cause trouble at system boot when keys and the like are generated from /dev/random so steps should be taken to ensure a reseed as soon as possible. The sysctl(8) controlling the seeded status (see below) may be used if security is not an issue or for convenience during setup or development. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
