[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-580952 ] import lock should be exposed

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Bugs item #580952, was opened at 2002-07-13 13:06
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Category: Python Interpreter Core
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Gordon B. McMillan (gmcm)
Assigned to: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Summary: import lock should be exposed

Initial Comment:
See
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/import-sig/2002-July/000179.html

In brief, a good import hook needs to use an import
lock. But if it creates it's own import lock, you have the
possibility of a deadlock, since PyImport_ImportModuleEx
still uses the core lock. So one thread can end up
acquiring the hook's lock, then seeking the core lock.
While another holds the core lock, but  does an import
(routed through the hook) and seeks the hook's lock.

Seems to me exposing the core lock through
imp.acquire_lock() and imp.release_lock() would
allow a properly coded hook  to avoid this.

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>Comment By: Gordon B. McMillan (gmcm)
Date: 2002-07-14 21:34

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Yes, I would just like to expose the current lock_import and 
unlock_import to C and Python.

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Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2002-07-14 21:06

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I don't understand how imports work, at least not at this 
level.  I note that the current lock_import() and 
unlock_import() arrange to implement a reentrant lock:  in 
the absence of you supplying a patch, are these the 
functions you would like to see exposed?  Given the games 
being played here, it seems too dangerous to expose the 
*underlying* lock's acquire and release methods directly.

Assigned to Guido for cogitation.

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Comment By: Gordon B. McMillan (gmcm)
Date: 2002-07-13 13:10

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Assigning to Tim for initial review.

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