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Author vstinner
Recipients StyXman, christian.heimes, neologix, pitrou, vstinner
Date 2016-04-22.11:58:16
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> We usually wait until syscalls are generally available in common distros and have bindings in glibc. It makes it easier to test the feature.

Usually, yeah. os.urandom() uses syscall() to use the new getrandom() of Linux since it's still not exposed in the GNU libc...
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17252
Status: NEW
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2016-04-22 11:58:16vstinnersetrecipients: + vstinner, pitrou, christian.heimes, StyXman, neologix
2016-04-22 11:58:16vstinnersetmessageid: <1461326296.43.0.130225474161.issue26826@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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