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

STINNER Victor report at bugs.python.org
Wed Jun 8 09:35:53 EDT 2016


STINNER Victor added the comment:

Donald: "Cory wasn't speaking about (non)blocking in general, but the case where (apparently) it's desired to not block even if that means you don't get cryptographically secure random in the CPython interpreter start up. (...)"

Oh sorry, I misunderstood his message.

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