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authorChristian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>2013-08-21 11:26:05 (GMT)
committerChristian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>2013-08-21 11:26:05 (GMT)
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Issue #18747: Re-seed OpenSSL's pseudo-random number generator after fork.
A pthread_atfork() child handler is used to seeded the PRNG with pid, time and some stack data.
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Library
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+- Issue #18747: Re-seed OpenSSL's pseudo-random number generator after fork.
+ A pthread_atfork() child handler is used to seeded the PRNG with pid, time
+ and some stack data.
+
- Issue #8865: Concurrent invocation of select.poll.poll() now raises a
RuntimeError exception. Patch by Christian Schubert.