yig added the comment:
For the record, I filed a bug against the underlying platform. (I wrote a
simple program to reproduce this in C and filed a bug report with Apple
rdar://7944700. The OpenRadar page for it is here:
http://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=334401 )
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New submission from yig :
Calling uuid.uuid4() while using the multiprocessing module leads to the same
exact UUIDs being generating in each process. It is an artifact resulting from
the built-in uuid_generate_random() of my underlying platform, Mac OS X 10.6.3.
A Linux machine I have does n