[Python-Dev] pthreads, fork, import, and execvp

[Neal Norwitz]

On 5/16/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
> > Broadening the ifdef to cover all posix systems rather than just AIX
> > might be the right thing to do.
>
> As I said: I doubt it is the right thing to do. Instead, the lock
> should get released in the child process if it is held at the
> point of the fork.
>
> I agree that we should find a repeatable test case first.

I'm not sure if this bug can be reproduced now, but the comment in
warnings.py points to:

    http://python.org/sf/683658

I didn't investigate it further.  That might allow someone to create a
reproducible test case.

n