Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 21:16, Robert Creager <Robert.Creager@oracle.com> wrote:
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0 0x0000000100a505e4 in Perl_get_hash_seed ()
>> #1 0x0000000100a69b94 in perl_parse ()
> I don't suppose /dev/urandom blocks on OS X?
The man page for it avers not, and besides it's hard to believe that
there wouldn't be a libc routine or two on the stack if we were blocked
in a kernel call, and also Robert showed that the process was consuming
CPU time, so it's not blocked. Tis puzzling if there's no loop in the
function.
regards, tom lane
