[New-bugs-announce] [issue33625] Disable GIL on getpwnam and getpwuid

[William Grzybowski]

New submission from William Grzybowski <william88 at gmail.com>:

Hello,

Currently the GIL is not disabled when calling pwd.getpwnam nor pwd.getpwuid.

It could be the C library call may take some time for completion, especially when using third-party modules on the system (nss-ldap, nss-pgsql, sss, etc).

Disabling GIL before calling them makes sure other threads can run in the meantime.

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components: Extension Modules
messages: 317445
nosy: wg
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Disable GIL on getpwnam and getpwuid
versions: Python 3.6

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