PEP 522: Note upstream rejection

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@ -3,12 +3,13 @@ Title: Allow BlockingIOError in security sensitive APIs
Version: $Revision$
Last-Modified: $Date$
Author: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>, Nathaniel J. Smith <njs@pobox.com>
Status: Draft
Status: Rejected
Type: Standards Track
Content-Type: text/x-rst
Requires: 506
Created: 16 June 2016
Python-Version: 3.6
Resolution: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/security-sig/2016-August/000101.html
Abstract
@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ potentially be encountered in the following situations:
generator, or Linux VMs that aren't configured to accept entropy from the
VM host)
Relationship with other PEPs
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@ -64,6 +66,18 @@ This PEP competes with Victor Stinner's PEP 524, which proposes to make
``os.urandom`` itself implicitly block when the system RNG is not ready.
PEP Rejection
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For the reference implementation, Guido rejected this PEP in favour of the
unconditional implicit blocking proposal in PEP 524.
This means any further discussion of appropriate default behaviour for
``os.urandom()`` in system Python installations in Linux distributions should
take place on the respective distro mailing lists, rather than on the upstream
CPython mailing lists.
Changes independent of this PEP
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