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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/os.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst | 5 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 16e5019..d4032e0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -3730,3 +3730,9 @@ Miscellaneous Functions For an easy-to-use interface to the random number generator provided by your platform, please see :class:`random.SystemRandom`. + + .. versionchanged:: 3.5 + On Linux 3.17 and newer, the ``getrandom()`` syscall is now used + when available. On OpenBSD 5.6 and newer, the C ``getentropy()`` + function is now used. These functions avoid the usage of an internal file + descriptor. diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst index a7f3dad..3a3d405 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst @@ -648,6 +648,11 @@ os * :class:`os.stat_result` now has a :attr:`~os.stat_result.st_file_attributes` attribute on Windows. (Contributed by Ben Hoyt in :issue:`21719`.) +* :func:`os.urandom`: On Linux 3.17 and newer, the ``getrandom()`` syscall is + now used when available. On OpenBSD 5.6 and newer, the C ``getentropy()`` + function is now used. These functions avoid the usage of an internal file + descriptor. + os.path ------- |