From: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:44:58 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Try to understand why most buildbots suddenly turned to red.
X-Git-Tag: v2.6a2~44
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8a69707b8087ea693a699176db083a13dbb52e69;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Try to understand why most buildbots suddenly turned to red.
Undo the only change that might have unexpected effects.

To be followed.
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diff --git a/Lib/threading.py b/Lib/threading.py
index eebe10a9c0f9..b7b702323b51 100644
--- a/Lib/threading.py
+++ b/Lib/threading.py
@@ -535,7 +535,8 @@ class Thread(_Verbose):
                 # test_threading.test_no_refcycle_through_target when
                 # the exception keeps the target alive past when we
                 # assert that it's dead.
-                self.__exc_clear()
+                # XXX Temporary experiment
+                # self.__exc_clear()
         finally:
             with _active_limbo_lock:
                 self.__stop()