https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9e13cc28962ce92ea080cb7988d95fff70955d96 commit: 9e13cc28962ce92ea080cb7988d95fff70955d96 branch: 3.14 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: colesbury <[email protected]> date: 2025-10-07T17:37:31Z summary:
[3.14] gh-137017: Ensure `Thread.is_alive()` only returns False after the underlying OS thread exits (gh-137315) (gh-138916) (cherry picked from commit aa9ceb17215af21ed6618d6f7ccb5bf57ca57101) Co-authored-by: Abdul <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Sam Gross <[email protected]> files: A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-08-01-23-11-25.gh-issue-137017.0yGcNc.rst M Modules/_threadmodule.c diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-08-01-23-11-25.gh-issue-137017.0yGcNc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-08-01-23-11-25.gh-issue-137017.0yGcNc.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000000000..7c2c013016d72e --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-08-01-23-11-25.gh-issue-137017.0yGcNc.rst @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +Fix :obj:`threading.Thread.is_alive` to remain ``True`` until the underlying OS +thread is fully cleaned up. This avoids false negatives in edge cases +involving thread monitoring or premature :obj:`threading.Thread.is_alive` calls. diff --git a/Modules/_threadmodule.c b/Modules/_threadmodule.c index 775cd704cda4ed..26d3c0a2266b71 100644 --- a/Modules/_threadmodule.c +++ b/Modules/_threadmodule.c @@ -690,6 +690,9 @@ PyThreadHandleObject_is_done(PyObject *op, PyObject *Py_UNUSED(dummy)) { PyThreadHandleObject *self = PyThreadHandleObject_CAST(op); if (_PyEvent_IsSet(&self->handle->thread_is_exiting)) { + if (_PyOnceFlag_CallOnce(&self->handle->once, join_thread, self->handle) == -1) { + return NULL; + } Py_RETURN_TRUE; } else { _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-checkins.python.org Member address: [email protected]
