Hi, On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 7:14 AM, V S, Nagendra (Nonstop Filesystems Team) > on NonStop "uuid.py" falls throw to random.range() call to generate the > random number
And indeed, the random module gets identical results in both parent and child after a fork(). This seems to mean that the random module is not safe to use in uuid without taking special care of this fact (e.g. feeding back os.getpid() into the seed). A bientôt, Armin. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
