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authorRonald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com>2010-05-05 15:32:33 (GMT)
committerRonald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com>2010-05-05 15:32:33 (GMT)
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Merged revisions 80784 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r80784 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-05-05 16:48:37 +0200 (Wed, 05 May 2010) | 9 lines The C function used by uuid.uuid4 is broken on OSX 10.6 in that after os.fork() the parent and child generate the same sequence of UUIDs. This patch falls back to the the Python implementation on OSX 10.6 or later. Fixes issue #8621. ........
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Library
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+- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the
+ parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
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- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a
Decimal operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those
signals is trapped, the specification determines the order in which