[issue39376] Avoid modifying the process global environment (not thread safe)

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[issue39376] Avoid modifying the process global environment (not thread safe)

Eric Snow added the comment: +1 This has impact on subinterpreters once they stop sharing the GIL. (It's already on my list of global resources that need better protection.) -- nosy: +eric.snow ___ Python tracker

[issue39376] Avoid modifying the process global environment (not thread safe)

New submission from Gregory P. Smith : For more context, see https://bugs.python.org/issue39375 which seeks to document the existing caveats. POSIX lacks any APIs to access the process global environment in a thread safe manner. Given this, we could _consider_ preventing os.putenv() and os.