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r78517 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-02-28 10:36:09 -0800 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010) | 3 lines
Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_threading.py b/Lib/test/test_threading.py
index b8265aa..9e540c2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_threading.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_threading.py
@@ -247,6 +247,25 @@
t.join()
# else the thread is still running, and we have no way to kill it
+ def test_limbo_cleanup(self):
+ # Issue 7481: Failure to start thread should cleanup the limbo map.
+ def fail_new_thread(*args):
+ raise threading.ThreadError()
+ _start_new_thread = threading._start_new_thread
+ threading._start_new_thread = fail_new_thread
+ try:
+ t = threading.Thread(target=lambda: None)
+ try:
+ t.start()
+ assert False
+ except threading.ThreadError:
+ self.assertFalse(
+ t in threading._limbo,
+ "Failed to cleanup _limbo map on failure of Thread.start()."
+ )
+ finally:
+ threading._start_new_thread = _start_new_thread
+
def test_finalize_runnning_thread(self):
# Issue 1402: the PyGILState_Ensure / _Release functions may be called
# very late on python exit: on deallocation of a running thread for
diff --git a/Lib/threading.py b/Lib/threading.py
index 0e77060..7e513b8 100644
--- a/Lib/threading.py
+++ b/Lib/threading.py
@@ -465,7 +465,12 @@
self._note("%s.start(): starting thread", self)
with _active_limbo_lock:
_limbo[self] = self
- _start_new_thread(self._bootstrap, ())
+ try:
+ _start_new_thread(self._bootstrap, ())
+ except Exception:
+ with _active_limbo_lock:
+ del _limbo[self]
+ raise
self._started.wait()
def run(self):