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| author | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> | 2016-06-07 09:21:42 (GMT) |
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| committer | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> | 2016-06-07 09:21:42 (GMT) |
| commit | dddf4849ec1750ca02d03b9772eff7141ba626f3 (patch) | |
| tree | 1add3bb9de96020956ebf0327c163df13af1bb25 /Misc/NEWS | |
| parent | 6827fd867b9609c405cd25568aa91df1b0d011b4 (diff) | |
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os.urandom() doesn't block on Linux anymore
Issue #26839: On Linux, os.urandom() now calls getrandom() with GRND_NONBLOCK
to fall back on reading /dev/urandom if the urandom entropy pool is not
initialized yet. Patch written by Colm Buckley.
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@@ -131,6 +131,10 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- +- Issue #26839: On Linux, :func:`os.urandom` now calls ``getrandom()`` with + ``GRND_NONBLOCK`` to fall back on reading ``/dev/urandom`` if the urandom + entropy pool is not initialized yet. Patch written by Colm Buckley. + - Issue #27164: In the zlib module, allow decompressing raw Deflate streams with a predefined zdict. Based on patch by Xiang Zhang. |