New submission from Alain Poirier <alain.poir...@net-ng.com>: In Python 2.6.2, the fix for the issue 5401 changed the way the mimetypes module is initialized.
But now the initialization is not thread-safe : a thread can set ``inited`` to ``True`` and then be preempted before to overwrite the functions guess_type(), guess_extension() ... With such a partial initialization, the next thread will raise an excessive recursion exception when calling one of this functions. A fix could be to wrap ``mimetypes.init()`` with a thread lock. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 86747 nosy: apoirier, benjamin.peterson severity: normal status: open title: mimetypes.MAGIC_FUNCTION initialization not thread-safe in Python 2.6.2 type: behavior versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5868> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
