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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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  r78531 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-02-28 18:31:33 -0800 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix for r78527.  It left out updating forkpty.
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diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index 616722f..50ef803 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -3632,14 +3632,18 @@
 posix_fork1(PyObject *self, PyObject *noargs)
 {
 	pid_t pid;
-	int result;
+	int result = 0;
 	_PyImport_AcquireLock();
 	pid = fork1();
-	result = _PyImport_ReleaseLock();
+	if (pid == 0) {
+		/* child: this clobbers and resets the import lock. */
+		PyOS_AfterFork();
+	} else {
+		/* parent: release the import lock. */
+		result = _PyImport_ReleaseLock();
+	}
 	if (pid == -1)
 		return posix_error();
-	if (pid == 0)
-		PyOS_AfterFork();
 	if (result < 0) {
 		/* Don't clobber the OSError if the fork failed. */
 		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError,
@@ -3661,14 +3665,18 @@
 posix_fork(PyObject *self, PyObject *noargs)
 {
 	pid_t pid;
-	int result;
+	int result = 0;
 	_PyImport_AcquireLock();
 	pid = fork();
-	result = _PyImport_ReleaseLock();
+	if (pid == 0) {
+		/* child: this clobbers and resets the import lock. */
+		PyOS_AfterFork();
+	} else {
+		/* parent: release the import lock. */
+		result = _PyImport_ReleaseLock();
+	}
 	if (pid == -1)
 		return posix_error();
-	if (pid == 0)
-		PyOS_AfterFork();
 	if (result < 0) {
 		/* Don't clobber the OSError if the fork failed. */
 		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError,
@@ -3777,16 +3785,20 @@
 static PyObject *
 posix_forkpty(PyObject *self, PyObject *noargs)
 {
-	int master_fd = -1, result;
+	int master_fd = -1, result = 0;
 	pid_t pid;
 
 	_PyImport_AcquireLock();
 	pid = forkpty(&master_fd, NULL, NULL, NULL);
-	result = _PyImport_ReleaseLock();
+	if (pid == 0) {
+		/* child: this clobbers and resets the import lock. */
+		PyOS_AfterFork();
+	} else {
+		/* parent: release the import lock. */
+		result = _PyImport_ReleaseLock();
+	}
 	if (pid == -1)
 		return posix_error();
-	if (pid == 0)
-		PyOS_AfterFork();
 	if (result < 0) {
 		/* Don't clobber the OSError if the fork failed. */
 		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError,