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[Python-Dev] BDFL ruling request: should we block forever waiting for high-quality random bits?

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> On Jun 10, 2016, at 5:21 PM, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Isn't that precisely the purpose of the GRND_NONBLOCK flag?


It doesn’t behave exactly the same as /dev/urandom. If the pool hasn’t been initialized yet /dev/urandom will return possibly predictable data whereas getrandom(GRND_NONBLOCK) will EAGAIN.

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