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  r78531 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-02-28 18:31:33 -0800 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix for r78527.  It left out updating forkpty.
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Modules/posixmodule.c

@@ -3880,15 +3880,18 @@ To both, return fd of newly opened pseudo-terminal.\n");
 static PyObject *
 posix_forkpty(PyObject *self, PyObject *noargs)
 {
-	int master_fd = -1, result;
+	int master_fd = -1, result = 0;
 	pid_t pid;
 
 	_PyImport_AcquireLock();
 	pid = forkpty(&master_fd, NULL, NULL, NULL);
-	if (pid == 0)
+	if (pid == 0) {
+		/* child: this clobbers and resets the import lock. */
 		PyOS_AfterFork();
-
-	result = _PyImport_ReleaseLock();
+	} else {
+		/* parent: release the import lock. */
+		result = _PyImport_ReleaseLock();
+	}
 	if (pid == -1)
 		return posix_error();
 	if (result < 0) {