Issue #10914: Initialize correctly the filesystem codec when creating a new

subinterpreter to fix a bootstrap issue with codecs implemented in Python, as
the ISO-8859-15 codec.

Add fscodec_initialized attribute to the PyInterpreterState structure.

Include/pystate.h

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ typedef struct _is {
     PyObject *codec_search_cache;
     PyObject *codec_error_registry;
     int codecs_initialized;
+    int fscodec_initialized;
 
 #ifdef HAVE_DLOPEN
     int dlopenflags;

Misc/NEWS

@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ What's New in Python 3.3 Alpha 1?
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #10914: Initialize correctly the filesystem codec when creating a new
+  subinterpreter to fix a bootstrap issue with codecs implemented in Python, as
+  the ISO-8859-15 codec.
+
 - Issue #11918: OS/2 and VMS are no more supported because of the lack of
   maintainer.
 

Objects/unicodeobject.c

@@ -1653,7 +1653,17 @@ PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault(PyObject *unicode)
                                 PyUnicode_GET_SIZE(unicode),
                                 "surrogateescape");
 #else
-    if (Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding) {
+    PyInterpreterState *interp = PyThreadState_GET()->interp;
+    /* Bootstrap check: if the filesystem codec is implemented in Python, we
+       cannot use it to encode and decode filenames before it is loaded. Load
+       the Python codec requires to encode at least its own filename. Use the C
+       version of the locale codec until the codec registry is initialized and
+       the Python codec is loaded.
+
+       Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is shared between all interpreters, we
+       cannot only rely on it: check also interp->fscodec_initialized for
+       subinterpreters. */
+    if (Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding && interp->fscodec_initialized) {
         return PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(unicode,
                                          Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding,
                                          "surrogateescape");
@@ -1843,12 +1853,17 @@ PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(const char *s, Py_ssize_t size)
 #elif defined(__APPLE__)
     return PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8(s, size, "surrogateescape");
 #else
-    /* During the early bootstrapping process, Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding
-       can be undefined. If it is case, decode using UTF-8. The following assumes
-       that Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is set to a built-in encoding during the
-       bootstrapping process where the codecs aren't ready yet.
-    */
-    if (Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding) {
+    PyInterpreterState *interp = PyThreadState_GET()->interp;
+    /* Bootstrap check: if the filesystem codec is implemented in Python, we
+       cannot use it to encode and decode filenames before it is loaded. Load
+       the Python codec requires to encode at least its own filename. Use the C
+       version of the locale codec until the codec registry is initialized and
+       the Python codec is loaded.
+
+       Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is shared between all interpreters, we
+       cannot only rely on it: check also interp->fscodec_initialized for
+       subinterpreters. */
+    if (Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding && interp->fscodec_initialized) {
         return PyUnicode_Decode(s, size,
                                 Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding,
                                 "surrogateescape");

Python/pystate.c

@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ PyInterpreterState_New(void)
         interp->codec_search_cache = NULL;
         interp->codec_error_registry = NULL;
         interp->codecs_initialized = 0;
+        interp->fscodec_initialized = 0;
 #ifdef HAVE_DLOPEN
 #ifdef RTLD_NOW
         interp->dlopenflags = RTLD_NOW;

Python/pythonrun.c

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ extern grammar _PyParser_Grammar; /* From graminit.c */
 
 /* Forward */
 static void initmain(void);
-static void initfsencoding(void);
+static int initfsencoding(PyInterpreterState *interp);
 static void initsite(void);
 static int initstdio(void);
 static void flush_io(void);
@@ -298,7 +298,8 @@ Py_InitializeEx(int install_sigs)
 
     _PyTime_Init();
 
-    initfsencoding();
+    if (initfsencoding(interp) < 0)
+        Py_FatalError("Py_Initialize: unable to load the file system codec");
 
     if (install_sigs)
         initsigs(); /* Signal handling stuff, including initintr() */
@@ -618,6 +619,10 @@ Py_NewInterpreter(void)
         Py_DECREF(pstderr);
 
         _PyImportHooks_Init();
+
+        if (initfsencoding(interp) < 0)
+            goto handle_error;
+
         if (initstdio() < 0)
             Py_FatalError(
             "Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams");
@@ -730,8 +735,8 @@ initmain(void)
     }
 }
 
-static void
-initfsencoding(void)
+static int
+initfsencoding(PyInterpreterState *interp)
 {
     PyObject *codec;
 #if defined(HAVE_LANGINFO_H) && defined(CODESET)
@@ -748,7 +753,8 @@ initfsencoding(void)
 
         Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding = codeset;
         Py_HasFileSystemDefaultEncoding = 0;
-        return;
+        interp->fscodec_initialized = 1;
+        return 0;
     }
 #endif
 
@@ -758,10 +764,11 @@ initfsencoding(void)
         /* Such error can only occurs in critical situations: no more
          * memory, import a module of the standard library failed,
          * etc. */
-        Py_FatalError("Py_Initialize: unable to load the file system codec");
-    } else {
-        Py_DECREF(codec);
+        return -1;
     }
+    Py_DECREF(codec);
+    interp->fscodec_initialized = 1;
+    return 0;
 }
 
 /* Import the site module (not into __main__ though) */