[Security-sig] Take a decision for os.urandom() in Python 3.6

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Fri Aug 5 15:42:53 EDT 2016


On 08/05/2016 12:24 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:

> Would it be possible to take a decision on the PEP 522 and PEP 524?
> Deadline for new features in Python 3.6 is in one month or something
> like that, no?
>
> My PEP:
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0524/
> "PEP 524 -- Make os.urandom() blocking on Linux"
>
> Nick's PEP:
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0522/
> "PEP 522 -- Allow BlockingIOError in security sensitive APIs"

Can someone write a brief summary of the differences between the two?

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~Ethan~


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