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Author	loewis
Recipients	georg.brandl, loewis, neologix, nijel, pitrou
Date	2011-01-04.21:08:33
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Message-id	<1294175316.39.0.97149164005.issue10824@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I wonder why reading from /dev/urandom has a loop in the first place, though - isn't it guaranteed that you can read as many bytes as you want in one go? This goes back to #934711, and apparently, even the original patch had the loop - for reasons that got never questioned.

I wonder why reading from /dev/urandom has a loop in the first place, though - isn't it guaranteed that you can read as many bytes as you want in one go? This goes back to #934711, and apparently, even the original patch had the loop - for reasons that got never questioned.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-01-04 21:08:36	loewis	set	recipients: + loewis, georg.brandl, nijel, pitrou, neologix
2011-01-04 21:08:36	loewis	set	messageid: <1294175316.39.0.97149164005.issue10824@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-01-04 21:08:33	loewis	link	issue10824 messages
2011-01-04 21:08:33	loewis	create