On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 06:16:22PM +0000, massimo s. wrote: > I thought that for os.urandom(): > - a timeout could be useful on any platform without a reliable random > device (I don't think Hurd is alone in this). I'll ask to the python > mailing list.
/dev/urandom does not provide reliable random data anyway; it's just a problem if no data can be provided at all I guess. An appropriate error message should be raised in that case after some timeout maybe. For /dev/random, things are different, it should block until reliable random data is again available from the entropy pool, I think. > - hurd-specifically, the module could maybe also check if a translator > is attached to /dev/urandom and at least spit a warning if there is none. A work-around on the Hurd is to copy a random binary (like /bin/bash) to /dev/urandom. I don't think python should worry about Hurd implementation details here. Michael _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
