[issue26839] Python 3.5 running on Linux kernel 3.17+ can block at startup or on importing the random module on getrandom()

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:

On 07.06.2016 13:27, Alex Gaynor wrote:
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> 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).
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> 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.

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