[issue29640] _PyThreadState_Init and fork race leads to inconsistent key list

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <vstinner at redhat.com> added the comment:

Oh, it seems like I was wrong in my previous comment. Python 2.7 code base is already designed to support native TLS. It's just that we only implement native TLS on Windows. So yeah, it seems doable to implement native TLS for pthread.

History of Py_HAVE_NATIVE_TLS:

commit 8d98d2cb95ac37147a4de5a119869211e8351324
Author: Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au>
Date:   Sat Apr 19 15:41:53 2003 +0000

    New PyGILState_ API - implements pep 311, from patch 684256.

commit 00f2df495a6fcb40d70243c34f296f26ccc72719
Author: Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 9 20:03:27 2009 +0000

    Issue 3582.  Improved thread support and TLS for Windows

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