New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr>: The import lock is lacking tests that it functions properly.
Coming up with a way of checking it was unexpectedly hard. I finally managed to write a script which quite reliably fails if you patch Python/import.c to not take the import lock. The script relies on garbage collection trickery to release the GIL at arbitrary moments. It should probably be converted to an unit test. ---------- components: Interpreter Core, Tests files: mtimport.py messages: 110219 nosy: brett.cannon, ncoghlan, pitrou priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Test for the import lock versions: Python 3.2 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17990/mtimport.py _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9251> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
