Commit e4710cfc authored by Brett Cannon's avatar Brett Cannon

Issue #15894: Document why we don't worry about re-acquiring the

global import lock after forking.
parent 1e1e8aa5
......@@ -202,8 +202,11 @@ _PyImport_ReInitLock(void)
if (import_lock_level > 1) {
/* Forked as a side effect of import */
long me = PyThread_get_thread_ident();
PyThread_acquire_lock(import_lock, 0);
/* XXX: can the previous line fail? */
/* The following could fail if the lock is already held, but forking as
a side-effect of an import is a) rare, b) nuts, and c) difficult to
do thanks to the lock only being held when doing individual module
locks per import. */
PyThread_acquire_lock(import_lock, NOWAIT_LOCK);
import_lock_thread = me;
import_lock_level--;
} else {
......
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