random.seeding is broken if urandom is absent #332
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random.seeding is broken if urandom is absent
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calling random.seed(random.random()) in every child process will leave the random number generator at identical state at each process (because random.random() will be the same), so I changed it to using the current time and process ID as seed which should fix things up.