> On Jun 10, 2016, at 5:21 PM, Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Isn't that precisely the purpose of the GRND_NONBLOCK flag?


It doesn’t behave exactly the same as /dev/urandom. If the pool hasn’t been 
initialized yet /dev/urandom will return possibly predictable data whereas 
getrandom(GRND_NONBLOCK) will EAGAIN.

—
Donald Stufft



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