diff Python/pythonrun.c @ 69832:2a19d09b08f8 3.2

Issue #1856: Avoid crashes and lockups when daemon threads run while the interpreter is shutting down; instead, these threads are now killed when they try to take the GIL.
author Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
date Wed, 04 May 2011 20:02:30 +0200
parents 2caf82aee7a4
children 7089afd69a1a c892b0321d23
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--- a/Python/pythonrun.c	Wed May 04 18:39:29 2011 +0300
+++ b/Python/pythonrun.c	Wed May 04 20:02:30 2011 +0200
@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@
 int Py_NoUserSiteDirectory = 0; /* for -s and site.py */
 int Py_UnbufferedStdioFlag = 0; /* Unbuffered binary std{in,out,err} */
 
+PyThreadState *_Py_Finalizing = NULL;
+
 /* PyModule_GetWarningsModule is no longer necessary as of 2.6
 since _warnings is builtin.  This API should not be used. */
 PyObject *
@@ -188,6 +190,7 @@
     if (initialized)
         return;
     initialized = 1;
+    _Py_Finalizing = NULL;
 
 #if defined(HAVE_LANGINFO_H) && defined(HAVE_SETLOCALE)
     /* Set up the LC_CTYPE locale, so we can obtain
@@ -388,15 +391,19 @@
      * the threads created via Threading.
      */
     call_py_exitfuncs();
+
+    /* Get current thread state and interpreter pointer */
+    tstate = PyThreadState_GET();
+    interp = tstate->interp;
+
+    /* Remaining threads (e.g. daemon threads) will automatically exit
+       after taking the GIL (in PyEval_RestoreThread()). */
+    _Py_Finalizing = tstate;
     initialized = 0;
 
     /* Flush stdout+stderr */
     flush_std_files();
 
-    /* Get current thread state and interpreter pointer */
-    tstate = PyThreadState_GET();
-    interp = tstate->interp;
-
     /* Disable signal handling */
     PyOS_FiniInterrupts();