[issue7282] RLocks leak references when used in raw threads

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Committed in r76172-r76175. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue7282] RLocks leak references when used in raw threads

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: An updated patch with test. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15298/rlock_leak2.patch ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue7282] RLocks leak references when used in raw threads

New submission from Antoine Pitrou : When you use an RLock from a thread which wasn't created through the high-level `threading` API (but, for example, using thread.start_new_thread()), the RLock creates a DummyThread object by calling current_thread(), and that DummyThread is immortal (as well a