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-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
-rw-r--r--Modules/posixmodule.c11
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index bf907a5..1433598 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Extensions
----------
+- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
+ in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
+
- Issue #4835: make PyLong_FromSocket_t() and PyLong_AsSocket_t() private
to the socket module, and fix the width of socket descriptors to be
correctly detected under 64-bit Windows.
diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index ce625b4..1080c7e 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -2580,11 +2580,16 @@ posix_listdir(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
oname = PyBytes_FromString(".");
}
name = PyBytes_AsString(oname);
- if ((dirp = opendir(name)) == NULL) {
+ Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+ dirp = opendir(name);
+ Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+ if (dirp == NULL) {
return posix_error_with_allocated_filename(oname);
}
if ((d = PyList_New(0)) == NULL) {
+ Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
closedir(dirp);
+ Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
Py_DECREF(oname);
return NULL;
}
@@ -2597,7 +2602,9 @@ posix_listdir(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
if (errno == 0) {
break;
} else {
+ Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
closedir(dirp);
+ Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
Py_DECREF(d);
return posix_error_with_allocated_filename(oname);
}
@@ -2621,7 +2628,9 @@ posix_listdir(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
}
Py_DECREF(v);
}
+ Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
closedir(dirp);
+ Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
Py_DECREF(oname);
return d;