[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Modules > In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv10274 > > Modified Files: > readline.c > Log Message: > Fixes for > > [ 1166660 ] The readline module can cause python to segfault > > It seems to me that the code I'm rewriting here attempted to call any > user-supplied hook functions using the thread state of the thread that > called the hook-setting function, as opposed to that of the thread > that is currently executing. This doesn't work, in general. > > Fix this by using the PyGILState API (It wouldn't be that hard to > define a dummy version of said API when #ifndef WITH_THREAD, would > it?). > > Also, check the conversion to integer of the return value of a hook > function for errors (this problem was mentioned in the ipython bug > report linked to in the above bug).
Oh, and I forgot to say: this should go into realease24-maint when that opens again. Cheers, mwh -- You're going to have to remember that I still think of Twisted as a big multiplayer game, and all this HTTP stuff is just kind of a grotty way to display room descriptions. -- Glyph Lefkowitz _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
