[issue6645] multiprocessing build fails on AIX - /dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com> added the comment:

I suppose multiprocessing invokes `os.random` somewhere. And os.random 
fails on AIX for obvious reasons:

>>> os.urandom(10)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/tmp/srid/ActivePythonEE-2.6.2.3-aix-powerpc64/i/lib/python2.6/
os.py", line 755, in urandom
    raise NotImplementedError("/dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found")
NotImplementedError: /dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found
>>> 

Why should multiprocessing require `urandom` at all? Can't it fallback 
to os.random, if os.urandom is unavailable?

try:
    os.urandom(10)
except NotImplementedError:
    urandom = os.urandom
else:
    urandom = os.random

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