[Python-Dev] Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS around readdir()? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Apr 17 18:19:35 CEST 2006


Currently, the readdir() call releases the GIL. I believe this is not thread-safe, because readdir() does not need to be re-entrant; we should use readdir_r where available to get a thread-safe version.

Comments?

Regards, Martin



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