import deadlocks when using fork

[abaron]

BPO	5912
Nosy	@benjaminp

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closed_at = <Date 2009-05-14.17:24:19.669>
created_at = <Date 2009-05-03.11:50:27.836>
labels = ['type-crash']
title = 'import deadlocks when using fork'
updated_at = <Date 2009-05-14.17:24:19.659>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/abaron'

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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue5912'
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[abaron]

While running 2 or more threads, if one thread is importing anything
(i.e. has the import lock) and the other thread runs fork and then the
child process runs import then the child and parent will hang forever
(the child waits on the import lock but the parent receives the signal).
see bpo-1590864 for another example of this.
Following is a simple way to reproduce this behavior:

mysleep.py:
import time
time.sleep(1)

run_me_and_hang.py:
import os
import threading
import subprocess
class F(threading.Thread):
def run(self):
import mysleep
print "f is out"
f = F()
f.start()
a = subprocess.call(["echo", "DONE"])
print "exit"

[apevec]

Issue is not reproducible with python 2.5, following patch fixes it on
python 2.4:

--- os.py-2.4 2009-05-14 12:54:08.000000000 +0000
+++ os.py 2009-05-14 13:06:21.000000000 +0000
@@ -351,8 +351,8 @@

 __all__.extend(["execl","execle","execlp","execlpe","execvp","execvpe"])

+from errno import ENOENT, ENOTDIR
def _execvpe(file, args, env=None):

• from errno import ENOENT, ENOTDIR

     if env is not None:
         func = execve

[benjaminp]

2.4 is no longer supported.