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r76172 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-11-09 17:00:11 +0100 (lun., 09 nov. 2009) | 5 lines
Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
`thread.start_new_thread()`.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_threading.py b/Lib/test/test_threading.py
index 5e18243..41f57dc 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_threading.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_threading.py
@@ -143,11 +143,9 @@
def test_foreign_thread(self):
# Check that a "foreign" thread can use the threading module.
def f(mutex):
- # Acquiring an RLock forces an entry for the foreign
+ # Calling current_thread() forces an entry for the foreign
# thread to get made in the threading._active map.
- r = threading.RLock()
- r.acquire()
- r.release()
+ threading.current_thread()
mutex.release()
mutex = threading.Lock()