Re: [Xmpppy-devel] Waiting for /dev/random on import xmpp

[Norman R. <no...@ra...>]

btw, dnspython 1.8 doesn't seed the entropy pool unless it's needed.  it
also uses os.random if possible.  both of these should help remove the
hangs.

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Norman Rasmussen <no...@ra...>wrote:

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> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Patrick Nagel <ma...@pa...>wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I just discovered xmpppy (which is great, thanks!), and I am a Python
>> newbie.
>>
>> When I try using xmpppy with the example script, it often (but not always)
>> hangs when I call the script. strace tells me, that it's waiting for data
>> from
>> /dev/random. This happens during the 'import xmpp' call. Now, this
>> probably
>> doesn't happen on busy systems, where /dev/random always has numbers, but
>> on
>> my quiet home server, it's definitely annoying.
>>
>> Since I'm a Python newbie, I don't know how things are done there, but
>> from my
>> experience just doing 'import <library>' shouldn't do complex things that
>> can
>> go wrong or take a long time, such as getting a random number from
>> /dev/random. Wouldn't be the xmpp.Client constructor (or however that is
>> called in Python land) be a better place for that?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Patrick.
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