STINNER Victor added the comment: PySSL_RAND_atfork_child(void) can be simplified by calling _PyTime_gettimeofday(). This function uses the most(*) accurate function and already implements fallbacks on error.
(*) _PyTime_gettimeofday() does not use clock_gettime() because of a linker issue: Python is not linked to librt, which is required to get clock_gettime() on Linux with glibc < 2.17. So you get a few less bits of entropy, but does it really matter? If it matters, you have probably to use a better random of entropy than the system time... Anyway, it would be easier to move the _PyTime_timeval and similar structures into the seed structure instead of shifting bits. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18747> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
