[issue42296] Infinite loop uninterruptable on Windows in 3.10

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> added the comment:

This looks like the smallest change I can make to fix it:

diff --git a/Include/internal/pycore_pystate.h b/Include/internal/pycore_pystate.h
index 0cd5550cfd..9ff740b87b 100644
--- a/Include/internal/pycore_pystate.h
+++ b/Include/internal/pycore_pystate.h
@@ -34,7 +34,11 @@ _Py_IsMainInterpreter(PyThreadState* tstate)
 static inline int
 _Py_ThreadCanHandleSignals(PyInterpreterState *interp)
 {
+#ifndef MS_WINDOWS
     return (_Py_IsMainThread() && interp == _PyRuntime.interpreters.main);
+#else
+    return (interp == _PyRuntime.interpreters.main);
+#endif
 }

I'll need Victor(?) to confirm whether checking for the main interpreter is sufficient. We're calling this from a new thread that AFAICT never holds the GIL, and we pass the main interpreter in explicitly (from trip_signal) so this check always succeeds (here, but not necessarily in other places where it is called).

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