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  r80784 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-05-05 16:48:37 +0200 (Wed, 05 May 2010) | 9 lines

  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.
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+- 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.
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 - Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a
   Decimal operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those
   signals is trapped, the specification determines the order in which