[issue8621] uuid.uuid4() generates non-unique values on OSX

[Stefan Krah]

Stefan Krah <stefan-usenet at bytereef.org> added the comment:

Ronald Oussoren <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
> Stefan: we already new that, see msg105018.
> 
> This issue was closed as fixed because the uuid module contains a workaround for this issue (by not using the broken C API on OSX 10.6).

Ok, my comment was partly meant to give an explanation why the test suite failed
but the individual tests did not.

If uuid_generate_random() is specified as async-signal-safe, then yes, the C API
would be broken on OSX.

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