[issue36843] AIX build fails with failure to get random numbers

[Robert Boehne]

Robert Boehne <rboehne at gmail.com> added the comment:

Reading a few bytes from /dev/urandom via dd:


robb at nepal:/raid/checkouts-raid/robb/nepal/build-py37$ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=256 count=1
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  ?c????%Z?;Pɟo=CIb?1+0 records in.
1+0 records out.
robb at nepal:/raid/checkouts-raid/robb/nepal/build-py37$ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=256 count=1
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1+0 records out.
robb at nepal:/raid/checkouts-raid/robb/nepal/build-py37$ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=256 count=1
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1+0 records out.
robb at nepal:/raid/checkouts-raid/robb/nepal/build-py37$

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