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Author christian.heimes
Recipients christian.heimes, mattchaput, pitrou, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date 2012-10-06.22:58:59
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If somebody is going to implement uuid based on the random module that somebody must take care of fork. Currently the PRGN in random isn't reseeded during fork(). This would lead to 100% collisions. The tempfile module contains a workaround for the issue.

I'm -1, see #15206.
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2012-10-06 22:59:00christian.heimessetrecipients: + christian.heimes, rhettinger, terry.reedy, pitrou, vstinner, mattchaput, serhiy.storchaka
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