Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Am 16.08.2013 18:24, schrieb Charles-François Natali: > > Well, first we'll have to make the code thread-safe, if we want to > > keep a persistent FD open. Which means we'll have to add a lock, which > > is likely to reduce concurrency, and overall throughput. > > Why locking? /dev/urandom is a pseudo char device. You can have multiple > readers on the same fd without any locking.
You must put a lock around the open() call, though, to avoid calling it several times and losing an fd. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18756> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
