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  r78527 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-02-28 17:22:39 -0800 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a
  thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
  lock.  The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
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  r78550 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-02-28 22:01:02 -0800 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix test to be skipped on windows.
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diff --git a/Python/import.c b/Python/import.c
index 2640cdb..4785bca 100644
--- a/Python/import.c
+++ b/Python/import.c
@@ -295,14 +295,18 @@
 	return 1;
 }
 
-/* This function used to be called from PyOS_AfterFork to ensure that newly
-   created child processes do not share locks with the parent, but for some
-   reason only on AIX systems. Instead of re-initializing the lock, we now
-   acquire the import lock around fork() calls. */
+/* This function is called from PyOS_AfterFork to ensure that newly
+   created child processes do not share locks with the parent.
+   We now acquire the import lock around fork() calls but on some platforms
+   (Solaris 9 and earlier? see isue7242) that still left us with problems. */
 
 void
 _PyImport_ReInitLock(void)
 {
+ 	if (import_lock != NULL)
+ 		import_lock = PyThread_allocate_lock();
+ 	import_lock_thread = -1;
+ 	import_lock_level = 0;
 }
 
 #endif