[Python-Dev] BDFL ruling request: should we block forever waiting for high-quality random bits? (original) (raw)
Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 17:21:38 EDT 2016
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[Random832]
So, I have a question. If this "weakness" in /dev/urandom is so unimportant to 99% of situations... why isn't there a flag that can be passed to getrandom() to allow the same behavior?
Isn't that precisely the purpose of the GRND_NONBLOCK flag?
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getrandom.2.html
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