in the tkinter module.
- Issue #18747: Re-seed OpenSSL's pseudo-random number generator after fork.
- A pthread_atfork() parent handler is used to seeded the PRNG with pid, time
+ A pthread_atfork() parent handler is used to seed the PRNG with pid, time
and some stack data.
- Issue #8865: Concurrent invocation of select.poll.poll() now raises a
/* Seed OpenSSL's PRNG at fork(), http://bugs.python.org/issue18747
*
* The parent handler seeds the PRNG from pseudo-random data like pid, the
- * current time (miliseconds or seconds) and an uninitialized arry.
+ * current time (miliseconds or seconds) and an uninitialized array.
* The array contains stack variables that are impossible to predict
* on most systems, e.g. function return address (subject to ASLR), the
* stack protection canary and automatic variables.
* Note:
* The code uses pthread_atfork() until Python has a proper atfork API. The
* handlers are not removed from the child process. A parent handler is used
- * instead of a child handler because fork() is suppose to be async-signal
+ * instead of a child handler because fork() is supposed to be async-signal
* safe but the handler calls unsafe functions.
*/