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Author vstinner
Recipients Colm Buckley, Lukasa, Theodore Tso, alex, doko, dstufft, larry, lemburg, martin.panter, matejcik, ned.deily, python-dev, rhettinger, skrah, thomas-petazzoni, vstinner, ztane
Date 2016-06-08.13:44:38
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Cory Benfield (msg267637): "if the purpose of this patch was to prevent long startup delays, *it failed*. On all the systems above os.urandom may continue to block system startup."

I don't pretend fixing the issue on all operating systems. As stated in the issue title, this issue is specific to Linux. I understand that the bug still exists on other platforms and is likely to require a specific fix for each platform.
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2016-06-08 13:44:38vstinnersetrecipients: + vstinner, lemburg, rhettinger, doko, larry, matejcik, ned.deily, alex, skrah, python-dev, martin.panter, ztane, dstufft, Lukasa, thomas-petazzoni, Colm Buckley, Theodore Tso
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