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Author pitrou
Recipients brett.cannon, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date 2010-07-13.19:05:29
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The import lock is lacking tests that it functions properly.

Coming up with a way of checking it was unexpectedly hard. I finally managed to write a script which quite reliably fails if you patch Python/import.c to not take the import lock. The script relies on garbage collection trickery to release the GIL at arbitrary moments.
It should probably be converted to an unit test.
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Date User Action Args
2010-07-13 19:05:32pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, brett.cannon, ncoghlan
2010-07-13 19:05:31pitrousetmessageid: <1279047931.75.0.287450849516.issue9251@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2010-07-13 19:05:30pitroulinkissue9251 messages
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