[Zope-dev] Zope crashes: Tim Peters reports potential problem

[Dieter Maurer]

Tim Peters reports on "comp.lang.python":
 > [Martin v. Loewis]
 > > The garbage collector runs while having the GIL, so it does not need
 > > to be thread-safe.
 > 
 > There's still a vulnerability here:  gc *assumes* the GIL is held when
 > _PyObject_GC_Malloc gets called, and doesn't verify that the GIL is in fact
 > held.  A rogue extension module could violate this precondition without
 > triggering a predictable error (and then "random" segfaults would be
 > likely).
Maybe, we should check for this, too.


Dieter