Yes, I believe allowing read access to this file would be acceptable. Alex
On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM Ian Pilcher <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 8/27/25 9:06 AM, Alex Gaynor wrote: > > I'm not positive, but during cryptography's startup we use > > `std::thread::available_parallelism()` in Rust to get the number of > > cores for various things, and I suspect it is accessing the cgroups > > configuration to know if the process has limited threads. > > > > If you wanted to really verify this, you could write a rust program > > that just called `std::thread::available_parallelism()` and verify if > > it shows the same behavior. > > No need to write a program. gdb shows that your supposition is correct. > > Seems like this is something that should be allowed by the policy. > > Thanks! > > -- > ======================================================================== > If your user interface is intuitive in retrospect ... it isn't intuitive > ======================================================================== -- All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing. _______________________________________________ Cryptography-dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/cryptography-dev.python.org Member address: [email protected]
