Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment:

I wonder why reading from /dev/urandom has a loop in the first place, though - 
isn't it guaranteed that you can read as many bytes as you want in one go? This 
goes back to #934711, and apparently, even the original patch had the loop - 
for reasons that got never questioned.

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nosy: +loewis
status: pending -> open

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