On 8 August 2016 at 19:59, Victor Stinner <[email protected]> wrote:
> os.urandom() is already blocking in Python 3.5.0 and 3.5.1 :-) > > For example on Fedora, no need for rawhide: Fedora 24 provides Python > 3.5.1 with a blocking os.urandom() :-) > Surprisingly, it doesn't, as due to the way the Fedora buildroots are set up in Koji the "HAVE_GETRANDOM_SYSCALL" configure check ends up returning False when the system Python RPM gets built: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/security-sig/2016-June/000060.html With 3.5.2 reverting to the old behaviour anyway, there's no compelling reason to address that build environment discrepancy for 3.5, but we (Fedora) are going to have to do something about it for Python 3.6 in F26 so that os.getrandom() gets defined properly and os.urandom() can be made blocking (with a warning when it does). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia
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