Issue #18784: The uuid module no more attempts to load libc via ctypes.CDLL,
if all necessary functions are already found in libuuid.
Patch by Evgeny Sologubov.
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index db01d14..b649f7f 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -1160,6 +1160,7 @@
Eric Snow
Dirk Soede
Paul Sokolovsky
+Evgeny Sologubov
Cody Somerville
Edoardo Spadolini
Clay Spence
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index dcd9754..3d9f24d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@
Library
-------
+- Issue #18784: The uuid module no more attempts to load libc via ctypes.CDLL,
+ if all necessary functions are already found in libuuid.
+ Patch by Evgeny Sologubov.
+
- Issue #18672: Fixed format specifiers for Py_ssize_t in debugging output in
the _sre module.