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Re: Random and fork

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* Julien Le Goff <julien.legoff@gmail.com> [2013-02-06 08:28:24 -0800]:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> Today I came accross a behaviour I did not expect in python (I am using 2.7). In my program, random.random() always seemed to return the same number; it turned out to be related to the fact that I was using os.fork.
> 
> See below a small program that illustrates this. It is easily fixed, but I'm interested in knowing why this happens. Can anybody give me a hint? Thanks!
> 
> import random
> import os
> 
> for i in xrange(10):
>     pid = os.fork()
>     if pid == 0:
>         # uncommenting this fixes the problem
>         # random.seed(os.getpid())
>         print random.random()
>         os._exit(0)
> 
> os.wait()
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If you look at the code of gunicorn, you can see than there is a
random.seed() just after the fork syscall.

Try with that.

Regards,
-- 
Stéphane Wirtel - http://wirtel.be - @matrixise

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Random and fork Julien Le Goff <julien.legoff@gmail.com> - 2013-02-06 08:28 -0800
  Re: Random and fork Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-02-06 17:47 +0100
  Re: Random and fork Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2013-02-06 17:49 +0100
    Re: Random and fork Julien Le Goff <julien.legoff@gmail.com> - 2013-02-07 01:41 -0800
  Re: Random and fork Stephane Wirtel <stephane@wirtel.be> - 2013-02-07 14:29 +0100

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