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

[Colm Buckley]

Colm Buckley added the comment:

Donald: please note - the current behavior is that Python *will not start at all* if getrandom() blocks (because the hash secret initialization fails). If you are relying on the current behavior with a functioning application, then you are invoking it well after the system PRNG has been initialized, and the situation doesn't apply.

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