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authorTony Roberts <tony@pyxll.com>2019-02-02 17:16:42 (GMT)
committerSteve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com>2019-02-02 17:16:42 (GMT)
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bpo-33895: Relase GIL while calling functions that acquire Windows loader lock (GH-7789)
LoadLibrary, GetProcAddress, FreeLibrary and GetModuleHandle acquire the system loader lock. Calling these while holding the GIL will cause a deadlock on the rare occasion that another thread is detaching and needs to destroy its thread state at the same time.
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