[issue25003] os.urandom() should call getrandom(2) not getentropy(2) on Solaris 11.3 and newer

[John Beck]

John Beck added the comment:

Yes, those patches work, with a caveat.  While testing this, I found out why I had needed EINVAL earlier (and still do, for now): there is a bug in the Solaris implementation of getrandom(2).  If flags are 0 and the buffer size > 1024, then it fails with EINVAL.  That is only supposed to happen for a buffer that big if GNRD_RANDOM is set in flags but GNRD_NONBLOCK is not set.  So until that bug is fixed, I have to patch py_getrandom() to treat EINVAL like ENOSYS and fall back to using /dev/urandom as if getrandom(2) were not supported.

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