GH-104308: socket.getnameinfo should release the GIL (#104307)

* socket.getnameinfo should release the GIL

* 📜🤖 Added by blurb_it.

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Co-authored-by: blurb-it[bot] <43283697+blurb-it[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-05-08-20-57-17.gh-issue-104307.DSB93G.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-05-08-20-57-17.gh-issue-104307.DSB93G.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..0377584
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-05-08-20-57-17.gh-issue-104307.DSB93G.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+:func:`socket.getnameinfo` now releases the GIL while contacting the DNS server

diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c
index 60219593be61e2efb1e559eeef02b806e20b5693..c11fb4400eab2fdaaf93e139a3197f5d3c775200 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/socketmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c
@@ -6883,8 +6883,10 @@ socket_getnameinfo(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
         }
 #endif
     }
+    Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
     error = getnameinfo(res->ai_addr, (socklen_t) res->ai_addrlen,
                     hbuf, sizeof(hbuf), pbuf, sizeof(pbuf), flags);
+    Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
     if (error) {
         socket_state *state = get_module_state(self);
         set_gaierror(state, error);