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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/Python/import.c b/Python/import.c
index cbfb761..43eabb8 100644
--- a/Python/import.c
+++ b/Python/import.c
@@ -298,15 +298,17 @@
 }
 
 /* This function is called from PyOS_AfterFork to ensure that newly
-   created child processes do not share locks with the parent. */
+   created child processes do not share locks with the parent.
+   We now acquire the import lock around fork() calls but on some platforms
+   (Solaris 9 and earlier? see isue7242) that still left us with problems. */
 
 void
 _PyImport_ReInitLock(void)
 {
-#ifdef _AIX
-	if (import_lock != NULL)
-		import_lock = PyThread_allocate_lock();
-#endif
+ 	if (import_lock != NULL)
+ 		import_lock = PyThread_allocate_lock();
+ 	import_lock_thread = -1;
+ 	import_lock_level = 0;
 }
 
 #endif