Fix:
[ 1176893 ] Readline segfault
by unsilly-ing PyGILState_Release().
Backport candidate.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f1551b1..ec30734 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@
Core and builtins
-----------------
+- It is now safe to call PyGILState_Release() before
+ PyEval_InitThreads() (note that if there is reason to believe there
+ are multiple threads around you still must call PyEval_InitThreads()
+ before using the Python API; this fix is for extension modules that
+ have no way of knowing if Python is multi-threaded yet).
+
- Typing Ctrl-C whilst raw_input() was waiting in a build with threads
disabled caused a crash.
diff --git a/Python/pystate.c b/Python/pystate.c
index 255cf7e..abca8dd 100644
--- a/Python/pystate.c
+++ b/Python/pystate.c
@@ -503,6 +503,6 @@
}
/* Release the lock if necessary */
else if (oldstate == PyGILState_UNLOCKED)
- PyEval_ReleaseThread(tcur);
+ PyEval_SaveThread();
}
#endif /* WITH_THREAD */