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Well, on the one hand this does sound like a valid use case. On the other hand, once the urandom file descriptor is closed by third-party code, it can very well be re-opened to point to another file, and then os.urandom() will start behaving in a very bad way.
Here is a possible solution in Python:
- when opening the urandom fd for the first time, record its st_ino and st_dev
- when calling urandom() a second time, call fstat() on the fd and check the st_ino and st_dev with the known values
- if the values have changed (or if fstat() fails with EBADF), open a new fd to /dev/urandom, again |
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2014-04-16 17:57:48 | pitrou | set | recipients:
+ pitrou, vstinner, neologix, kwirk |
2014-04-16 17:57:48 | pitrou | set | messageid: <1397671068.76.0.346403384029.issue21207@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2014-04-16 17:57:48 | pitrou | link | issue21207 messages |
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