Tim Peters reports on "comp.lang.python": > [Martin v. Loewis] > > The garbage collector runs while having the GIL, so it does not need > > to be thread-safe. > > There's still a vulnerability here: gc *assumes* the GIL is held when > _PyObject_GC_Malloc gets called, and doesn't verify that the GIL is in fact > held. A rogue extension module could violate this precondition without > triggering a predictable error (and then "random" segfaults would be > likely). Maybe, we should check for this, too.
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