[issue5912] import deadlocks when using fork

New submission from ayal baron : While running 2 or more threads, if one thread is importing anything (i.e. has the import lock) and the other thread runs fork and then the child process runs import then the child and parent will hang forever (the child waits on the import lock but the parent

[issue1590864] import deadlocks when using PyObjC threads

ayal baron added the comment: Hi, We have the same problem while running two threads where one is running a subprocess command and the other is importing modules. This will cause a deadlock and this IS a bug!!! This happens quite often on a slow machine (once every 2-3 runs). -- nosy