Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Neal Norwitz wrote:
>>> As I said: I doubt it is the right thing to do. Instead, the lock
>>> should get released in the child process if it is held at the
>>> point of the fork.
>>>
>> I'm not sure if this bug can be reproduced now, but the comment in
>> warnings.py points to:
>>
>> http://python.org/sf/683658
>>
>> I didn't investigate it further. That might allow someone to create a
>> reproducible test case.
>
> That's a different problem, though. Here, the main thread waits for a
> child *thread* while holding the import lock. I don't quite understand
> the test case given, and I can't make it deadlock anymore (probably
> because of Just's fix).
And if I understand it correctly, it falls under the category that waiting for
another thread while holding the import lock is a *really* bad idea from a
thread safety point of view.
The thing with the import-after-fork deadlock is that you can trigger it
without even doing anything that's known not to be thread-safe.
Cheers,
Nick.
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