New submission from M. Schmitzer:
The way the fnmatch module uses its regex cache is not threadsafe. When
multiple threads use the module in parallel, a race condition between
retrieving a - presumed present - item from the cache and clearing the cache
(because the maximum size has been
M. Schmitzer added the comment:
Ok, if that is the attitude in such cases, feel free to close this.
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http://bugs.python.org/issue23191
M. Schmitzer added the comment:
@serhiy.storchaka: My thoughts exactly, especially regarding the caching being
implicit. From the outside, fnmatch really doesn't look like it could have
threading issues.
The patch also looks exactly like what I had in mind
