[ python-Bugs-811844 ] readline+no threads = core dump

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Bugs item #811844, was opened at 2003-09-24 16:46
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Category: Threads
Group: Python 2.3
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: TEd Drain (teddrain)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: readline+no threads = core dump

Initial Comment:
Build 2.3 or 2.3.1 on linux with the following
configure command:

./configure --enable-shared --without-threads

Try running the rlcompleter example.  If you hit TAB
with completions enabled, you'll get a core dump after
you hit return on that line.  Works fine if I build
with threads enabled.  

This is a major problem for me since we have to deliver
our software on machines that do not support pthreads
(hpux 10.2 for example).

~: uname -a
Linux XXXX 2.4.9-21 #1 Thu Jan 17 14:16:30 EST 2002
i686 unknown

~/builds-gcc2: python
Python 2.3.1 (#1, Sep 24 2003, 08:13:26)
[GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (release)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
more information.
>>> import readline, rlcompleter
>>> readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
>>> readline.par<TAB> se_and_bind()
Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current thread
Abort (core dumped)


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>Comment By: Michael Hudson (mwh)
Date: 2005-04-07 10:12

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This seems to have been fixed, at some indeterminate time in the past.

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Comment By: Anthony Baxter (anthonybaxter)
Date: 2003-09-26 18:30

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Assuming the problem is just a shallow one, would the
following patch "fix" the problem?

It makes the crashes go away for me.


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Comment By: Michael Hudson (mwh)
Date: 2003-09-24 17:17

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i see this too.

oops.  hopefully easy to fix...

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