From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:49:24 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: os.urandom no longer masks unrelated exceptions like SystemExit or
X-Git-Tag: v2.5b3~18
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=07fec3aa5a7c9fb6b1f8bae6bf6773892a702ea0;p=python

os.urandom no longer masks unrelated exceptions like SystemExit or
KeyboardInterrupt.
---

diff --git a/Lib/os.py b/Lib/os.py
index 31002acb75..2d1b29b57b 100644
--- a/Lib/os.py
+++ b/Lib/os.py
@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ if not _exists("urandom"):
         """
         try:
             _urandomfd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY)
-        except:
+        except (OSError, IOError):
             raise NotImplementedError("/dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found")
         bytes = ""
         while len(bytes) < n:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 9eeeff8b4a..b498cc31c3 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ Core and builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- os.urandom no longer masks unrelated exceptions like SystemExit or
+  KeyboardInterrupt.
+
 - Bug #1525866: Don't copy directory stat times in 
   shutil.copytree on Windows