From 332069637162c46dbad433ef1b620742a56af430 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ronald Oussoren Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 14:48:37 +0000 Subject: 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. --- Lib/test/test_uuid.py | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Lib/uuid.py | 13 +++++++++++++ Misc/NEWS | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 44 insertions(+) diff --git a/Lib/test/test_uuid.py b/Lib/test/test_uuid.py index cc21bae..d101956 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_uuid.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_uuid.py @@ -446,6 +446,34 @@ class TestUUID(TestCase): equal(u, uuid.UUID(v)) equal(str(u), v) + def testIssue8621(self): + import os + import sys + if os.name != 'posix': + return + + # On at least some versions of OSX uuid.uuid4 generates + # the same sequence of UUIDs in the parent and any + # children started using fork. + fds = os.pipe() + pid = os.fork() + if pid == 0: + os.close(fds[0]) + value = uuid.uuid4() + os.write(fds[1], value.hex) + sys.exit(0) + + else: + os.close(fds[1]) + parent_value = uuid.uuid4().hex + os.waitpid(pid, 0) + child_value = os.read(fds[0], 100) + + self.assertNotEqual(parent_value, child_value) + + + + def test_main(): test_support.run_unittest(TestUUID) diff --git a/Lib/uuid.py b/Lib/uuid.py index 6aaa2b4..d915fb2 100644 --- a/Lib/uuid.py +++ b/Lib/uuid.py @@ -406,6 +406,19 @@ try: if hasattr(lib, 'uuid_generate_time'): _uuid_generate_time = lib.uuid_generate_time + # The uuid_generate_* functions are broken on MacOS X 10.6, as noted + # in issue #8621 the function generates the same sequence of values + # in the parent process and all children created using fork (unless + # those children use exec as well). + # + # Assume that the uuid_generate functions are broken from 10.6 onward, + # the test can be adjusted when a later version is fixed. + import sys + if sys.platform == 'darwin': + import os + if int(os.uname()[2].split('.')[0]) >= 10: + _uuid_generate_random = _uuid_generate_time = None + # On Windows prior to 2000, UuidCreate gives a UUID containing the # hardware address. On Windows 2000 and later, UuidCreate makes a # random UUID and UuidCreateSequential gives a UUID containing the diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index f672f4a..52fd276 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- +- 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. + - Issue #8313: traceback.format_exception_only() encodes unicode message to ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if str(value) failed -- cgit v0.12