Charles-François Natali added the comment: 2013/8/17 Christian Heimes <rep...@bugs.python.org>: > Here is a patch that is based on Apache's mod_ssl code. mod_ssl perturbs the > PRNG state more often but I think that's overkill for Python. > > The new patch only affects the PRNG state of the child process. In my opinion > it is the better way to solve this issue. The RAND API does some internal > locking. Bad things might happen if one thread of a process calls fork() > while another is in the middle of a locked RAND operation.
Ouch, this would mean making the interpreter prone to deadlock/crash (since the atfork hook is not async-signal safe) :-\ ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18747> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
