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| author | Tony Roberts <tony@pyxll.com> | 2019-02-02 17:16:42 (GMT) |
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| committer | Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com> | 2019-02-02 17:16:42 (GMT) |
| commit | 4860f01ac0f07cdc8fc0cc27c33f5a64e5cfec9f (patch) | |
| tree | 18e9232f27d8bee1c9a8139937b69ec013a19abf /Misc/NEWS.d | |
| parent | 2de576e16d42ce43698d384d0dd46ba6cf165424 (diff) | |
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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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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-06-19-11-57-50.bpo-33895.zpblTy.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-06-19-11-57-50.bpo-33895.zpblTy.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a12b819 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-06-19-11-57-50.bpo-33895.zpblTy.rst @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +GIL is released while calling functions that acquire Windows loader lock. |