[issue30967] Crash in PyThread_ReInitTLS() in the child process after os.fork() on CentOS 6.5 (Python 2.7.13)

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor added the comment:

Python 2.7 uses its own implementation of Thread Local Storage: see find_key() in Python/thread.c. This implementation uses a lock and a chained list. A fork only clones the current thread in the child process, all other threads are "removed", so Python has to manually remove all TLS variables of the other threads using PyThread_ReInitTLS().

I don't think that Python 3 is affected by such bug, since Python 3 uses native TLS APIs like pthread pthread_{get,set}specific() on UNIX/BSD.

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nosy: +haypo
title: Python core crash during os.fork() on CentOS 6.5 (Python 2.7.13) -> Crash in PyThread_ReInitTLS() in the child process after os.fork() on CentOS 6.5 (Python 2.7.13)

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