[issue21826] Performance issue (+fix) AIX ctypes.util with no /sbin/ldconfig present

2014-06-22 Thread tw.bert
tw.bert added the comment: Hi David, thank you for looking into this. Issue 11063 starts with "When the uuid.py module is simply imported it has the side effect of forking a subprocess (/sbin/ldconfig) and doing a lot of stuff find a uuid implementation by ctypes.". My fix is spec

[issue21826] Performance issue (+fix) AIX ctypes.util with no /sbin/ldconfig present

2014-06-22 Thread tw.bert
New submission from tw.bert: Preample: This is my first post to the python issue tracker, I included a fix. This issue is probably related to http://bugs.python.org/issue11063 . The problem: After upgrading a package on AIX 7.1 x64 that started using the uuid module, we experienced serious