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

Donald Stufft report at bugs.python.org
Tue Jun 7 08:09:01 EDT 2016


Donald Stufft added the comment:

To be clear, I don't have a problem adding ``os.urandom_info`` but I don't think that it solves the problem, we shouldn't force people to introspect ``os.urandom`` to figure out if CPython decided to make it less secure on this invocation or not.

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