Issue #21963: backout issue #1856 patch (avoid crashes and lockups when
daemon threads run while the interpreter is shutting down; instead,
these threads are now killed when they try to take the GIL), as it seems
to break some existing code.
diff --git a/Python/pythonrun.c b/Python/pythonrun.c
index 05bb62b..ade5efe 100644
--- a/Python/pythonrun.c
+++ b/Python/pythonrun.c
@@ -91,8 +91,6 @@
int Py_NoUserSiteDirectory = 0; /* for -s and site.py */
int Py_HashRandomizationFlag = 0; /* for -R and PYTHONHASHSEED */
-PyThreadState *_Py_Finalizing = NULL;
-
/* Hack to force loading of object files */
int (*_PyOS_mystrnicmp_hack)(const char *, const char *, Py_ssize_t) = \
@@ -165,7 +163,6 @@
if (initialized)
return;
initialized = 1;
- _Py_Finalizing = NULL;
if ((p = Py_GETENV("PYTHONDEBUG")) && *p != '\0')
Py_DebugFlag = add_flag(Py_DebugFlag, p);
@@ -425,16 +422,12 @@
* the threads created via Threading.
*/
call_sys_exitfunc();
+ initialized = 0;
/* Get current thread state and interpreter pointer */
tstate = PyThreadState_GET();
interp = tstate->interp;
- /* Remaining threads (e.g. daemon threads) will automatically exit
- after taking the GIL (in PyEval_RestoreThread()). */
- _Py_Finalizing = tstate;
- initialized = 0;
-
/* Disable signal handling */
PyOS_FiniInterrupts();