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[3.12] gh-104372: Drop the GIL around the vfork() call. (GH-104782) (#104942)
authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Thu, 25 May 2023 20:44:29 +0000 (13:44 -0700)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>
Thu, 25 May 2023 20:44:29 +0000 (20:44 +0000)
commit5c2971b78f7e2bdf8ed6073c7470cdfe2a4b7a69
tree2e1a859429ce9295ebb354115f35387dd914e815
parent930efde4c72a38cdc98dfafc94f790638639924e
[3.12] gh-104372: Drop the GIL around the vfork() call. (GH-104782) (#104942)

gh-104372: Drop the GIL around the vfork() call. (GH-104782)

On Linux where the `subprocess` module can use the `vfork` syscall for
faster spawning, prevent the parent process from blocking other threads
by dropping the GIL while it waits for the vfork'ed child process `exec`
outcome.  This prevents spawning a binary from a slow filesystem from
blocking the rest of the application.

Fixes GH-104372.
(cherry picked from commit d08679212d9af52dd074cd4a6abb440edb944c9c)

Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <gps@python.org>
Doc/library/subprocess.rst
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Modules/_posixsubprocess.c