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Author dstufft
Recipients Colm Buckley, Lukasa, alex, doko, dstufft, larry, lemburg, martin.panter, matejcik, ned.deily, python-dev, rhettinger, skrah, thomas-petazzoni, vstinner, ztane
Date 2016-06-07.11:54:45
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> Reminder: getrandom() feature is specific to Linux. I understand that all other operating systems don't warn if the urandom entropy pool is not initialized yet!

As far as I know, all other modern OSs *ALWAYS* block until their entropy pool is intialized. It's Linux that refuses to get with the program.
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2016-06-07 11:54:46dstufftsetrecipients: + dstufft, lemburg, rhettinger, doko, vstinner, larry, matejcik, ned.deily, alex, skrah, python-dev, martin.panter, ztane, Lukasa, thomas-petazzoni, Colm Buckley
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