[Python-Dev] BDFL ruling request: should we block forever waiting for high-quality random bits?

[Tim Peters]

[Random832]
> So, I have a question. If this "weakness" in /dev/urandom is so
> unimportant to 99% of situations... why isn't there a flag that can be
> passed to getrandom() to allow the same behavior?

Isn't that precisely the purpose of the GRND_NONBLOCK flag?

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getrandom.2.html