Charles-François Natali added the comment: >> 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.
Exactly (unless the FD is open during the module initialization, instead of using lazy-open upon first os.urandom() call). ---------- _______________________________________ 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
