[Python-ideas] New PyThread_tss_ C-API for CPython

[Zachary Ware]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 6:07 AM, Erik Bray <erik.m.bray at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I wanted to bring attention to an issue that's been languishing on the
> bug tracker since last year, which I think would best be addressed by
> changes to CPython's C-API.  The original issue is at
> http://bugs.python.org/issue25658, but I have made an effort below in
> a sort of proto-PEP to summarize the problem and the proposed
> solution.

I am not familiar enough with the threading implementation to be
anything more than moral support, but I am in favor of making some
change here.  This is a significant blocker to Cygwin support, which
is actually fairly close to being supportable.

-- 
Zach