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Author Lukasa
Recipients Colm Buckley, Lukasa, Theodore Tso, alex, christian.heimes, doko, dstufft, larry, lemburg, martin.panter, matejcik, ned.deily, python-dev, rhettinger, skrah, thomas-petazzoni, vstinner, ztane
Date 2016-06-08.09:30:10
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> You're right, it's remotely possible that on platforms where /dev/urandom
> could block, Python startup could therefore also block.  And I'm not
> proposing we fix that, as so far nobody has reported it as a problem.
> 
> This suggests to me that yes I'm talking specifically about the regression
> on Linux in the 3.5 series.

Ok, so with that clarification I personally would prefer Victor's patch from #27266, but can also understand wanting to leave the codebase as-is. Either way would be consistent with your goals, Larry. Victor's patch is more secure, but does cause os.urandom to diverge from the semantics of /dev/urandom in extreme conditions (specifically, early boot) on Linux.

That's your tradeoff to make, Larry. =) I think both sides have been well-argued here. Thanks for clarifying.
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2016-06-08 09:30:10Lukasasetrecipients: + Lukasa, lemburg, rhettinger, doko, vstinner, larry, christian.heimes, matejcik, ned.deily, alex, skrah, python-dev, martin.panter, ztane, dstufft, thomas-petazzoni, Colm Buckley, Theodore Tso
2016-06-08 09:30:10Lukasasetmessageid: <1465378210.76.0.166782523032.issue26839@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2016-06-08 09:30:10Lukasalinkissue26839 messages
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