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Author	lemburg
Recipients	Colm Buckley, alex, doko, larry, lemburg, martin.panter, matejcik, ned.deily, python-dev, rhettinger, skrah, thomas-petazzoni, vstinner, ztane
Date	2016年06月07日.11:31:47
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In-reply-to	<1465298853.42.0.503828063338.issue26839@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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On 07.06.2016 13:27, Alex Gaynor wrote: > > This doesn't look correct to me. Despite what the Linux maintainers insist, it's a _bug_ that /dev/urandom will return immediately if the system's entropy pool has never been seeded; one of the whole points of the getrandom syscall is that it has the correct behavior (which is the same behavior as BSDs). > > IMO the patch landed this morning should be reverted and it should be left as is. I'm with Victor and the others on this one. Practicality beats purity.

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On 07.06.2016 13:27, Alex Gaynor wrote:
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> This doesn't look correct to me. Despite what the Linux maintainers insist, it's a _bug_ that /dev/urandom will return immediately if the system's entropy pool has never been seeded; one of the whole points of the getrandom syscall is that it has the correct behavior (which is the same behavior as BSDs).
> 
> IMO the patch landed this morning should be reverted and it should be left as is.
I'm with Victor and the others on this one. Practicality beats
purity.

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2016年06月07日 11:31:47	lemburg	create

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