[issue29157] random.c: Prefer getrandom() over getentropy() to support glibc 2.24 on Linux

2017-02-21 Thread Vladimír Čunát
Vladimír Čunát added the comment: Thanks, I see now. From my point of view it is related to security, but I/we will deal with it somehow. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue29

[issue29157] random.c: Prefer getrandom() over getentropy() to support glibc 2.24 on Linux

2017-02-21 Thread Vladimír Čunát
Vladimír Čunát added the comment: Why was there no backporting e.g. to 3.4 branch? I thought you implied that 3.3 and 3.4 are unaffected, but our build farm says otherwise, getting a segfault in bin/python3.4m (3.4.6) and printing "Fatal Python error: getentropy() f

[issue29157] random.c: Prefer getrandom() over getentropy() to support glibc 2.24 on Linux

2017-02-16 Thread Vladimír Čunát
Vladimír Čunát added the comment: Nitpick: here you always state that it's about glibc-2.24 but I'm very confident it only started with 2.25. -- nosy: +Vladimír Čunát ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.o