[issue9123] insecure os.urandom on VMS

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

Zooko O'Whielacronx <zooko at zooko.com> added the comment:

HACK Zooko-Ofsimplegeos-MacBook-Pro:~/playground/python/release27-trunk$ svn diff
Index: Modules/posixmodule.c
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--- Modules/posixmodule.c       (revision 82382)
+++ Modules/posixmodule.c       (working copy)
@@ -8481,7 +8481,7 @@
     result = PyString_FromStringAndSize(NULL, howMany);
     if (result != NULL) {
         /* Get random data */
-        if (RAND_pseudo_bytes((unsigned char*)
+        if (RAND_bytes((unsigned char*)
                               PyString_AS_STRING(result),
                               howMany) < 0) {
             Py_DECREF(result);

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