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-rw-r--r--Include/pythonrun.h1
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS4
-rw-r--r--Python/pythonrun.c1
-rw-r--r--Python/random.c55
4 files changed, 48 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Include/pythonrun.h b/Include/pythonrun.h
index aca591507e..8fdb5b5210 100644
--- a/Include/pythonrun.h
+++ b/Include/pythonrun.h
@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(void) _PyGC_DumpShutdownStats(void);
PyAPI_FUNC(void) _PyGC_Fini(void);
PyAPI_FUNC(void) PySlice_Fini(void);
PyAPI_FUNC(void) _PyType_Fini(void);
+PyAPI_FUNC(void) _PyRandom_Fini(void);
PyAPI_DATA(PyThreadState *) _Py_Finalizing;
#endif
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index dfba2cac0c..7258ce1755 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #18756: os.urandom() now uses a lazily-opened persistent file
+ descriptor, so as to avoid using many file descriptors when run in
+ parallel from multiple threads.
+
- Issue #18418: After fork(), reinit all threads states, not only active ones.
Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
diff --git a/Python/pythonrun.c b/Python/pythonrun.c
index 375bf34c82..cbd62aa056 100644
--- a/Python/pythonrun.c
+++ b/Python/pythonrun.c
@@ -625,6 +625,7 @@ Py_Finalize(void)
PyDict_Fini();
PySlice_Fini();
_PyGC_Fini();
+ _PyRandom_Fini();
/* Cleanup Unicode implementation */
_PyUnicode_Fini();
diff --git a/Python/random.c b/Python/random.c
index 8cf2fef7c6..1d470c703c 100644
--- a/Python/random.c
+++ b/Python/random.c
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ vms_urandom(unsigned char *buffer, Py_ssize_t size, int raise)
#if !defined(MS_WINDOWS) && !defined(__VMS)
+static int urandom_fd = -1;
/* Read size bytes from /dev/urandom into buffer.
Call Py_FatalError() on error. */
@@ -133,18 +134,30 @@ dev_urandom_python(char *buffer, Py_ssize_t size)
if (size <= 0)
return 0;
- Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
- fd = _Py_open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
- Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
- if (fd < 0)
- {
- if (errno == ENOENT || errno == ENXIO ||
- errno == ENODEV || errno == EACCES)
- PyErr_SetString(PyExc_NotImplementedError,
- "/dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found");
+ if (urandom_fd >= 0)
+ fd = urandom_fd;
+ else {
+ Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+ fd = _Py_open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
+ Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+ if (fd < 0)
+ {
+ if (errno == ENOENT || errno == ENXIO ||
+ errno == ENODEV || errno == EACCES)
+ PyErr_SetString(PyExc_NotImplementedError,
+ "/dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found");
+ else
+ PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
+ return -1;
+ }
+ if (urandom_fd >= 0) {
+ /* urandom_fd was initialized by another thread while we were
+ not holding the GIL, keep it. */
+ close(fd);
+ fd = urandom_fd;
+ }
else
- PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
- return -1;
+ urandom_fd = fd;
}
Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
@@ -168,12 +181,20 @@ dev_urandom_python(char *buffer, Py_ssize_t size)
PyErr_Format(PyExc_RuntimeError,
"Failed to read %zi bytes from /dev/urandom",
size);
- close(fd);
return -1;
}
- close(fd);
return 0;
}
+
+static void
+dev_urandom_close(void)
+{
+ if (urandom_fd >= 0) {
+ close(urandom_fd);
+ urandom_fd = -1;
+ }
+}
+
#endif /* !defined(MS_WINDOWS) && !defined(__VMS) */
/* Fill buffer with pseudo-random bytes generated by a linear congruent
@@ -271,3 +292,11 @@ _PyRandom_Init(void)
#endif
}
}
+
+void
+_PyRandom_Fini(void)
+{
+#if !defined(MS_WINDOWS) && !defined(__VMS)
+ dev_urandom_close();
+#endif
+}