When os.fork() is called (on platforms that support it) all threads but the current one are destroyed in the child process. Consequently we must ensure that all but the associated interpreter are likewise destroyed. The main interpreter is critical for runtime operation, so we must ensure that fork only happens in the main interpreter.
https://bugs.python.org/issue34651
* Add _testcapi.get_coreconfig() to get the _PyCoreConfig of the
interpreter
* test.pythoninfo now gets the core configuration using
_testcapi.get_coreconfig()
Use the core configuration of the interpreter, rather
than using global configuration variables. For example, replace
Py_QuietFlag with core_config->quiet.
* Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding and Py_FileSystemDefaultEncodeErrors
default value is now NULL: initfsencoding() set them
during Python initialization.
* Document how Python chooses the filesystem encoding and error
handler.
* Add an assertion to _PyCoreConfig_Read().
Add support for the "surrogatepass" error handler in
PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() and PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault()
for the UTF-8 encoding.
Changes:
* _Py_DecodeUTF8Ex() and _Py_EncodeUTF8Ex() now support the
surrogatepass error handler (_Py_ERROR_SURROGATEPASS).
* _Py_DecodeLocaleEx() and _Py_EncodeLocaleEx() now use
the _Py_error_handler enum instead of "int surrogateescape" to pass
the error handler. These functions now return -3 if the error
handler is unknown.
* Add unit tests on _Py_DecodeLocaleEx() and _Py_EncodeLocaleEx()
in test_codecs.
* Rename get_error_handler() to _Py_GetErrorHandler() and expose it
as a private function.
* _freeze_importlib doesn't need config.filesystem_errors="strict"
workaround anymore.
_PyCoreConfig_Read() is now responsible to choose the filesystem
encoding and error handler. Using Py_Main(), the encoding is now
chosen even before calling Py_Initialize().
_PyCoreConfig.filesystem_encoding is now the reference, instead of
Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, for the Python filesystem encoding.
Changes:
* Add filesystem_encoding and filesystem_errors to _PyCoreConfig
* _PyCoreConfig_Read() now reads the locale encoding for the file
system encoding.
* PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault() and PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize()
now use the interpreter configuration rather than
Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding and Py_FileSystemDefaultEncodeErrors
global configuration variables.
* Add _Py_SetFileSystemEncoding() and _Py_ClearFileSystemEncoding()
private functions to only modify Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding and
Py_FileSystemDefaultEncodeErrors in coreconfig.c.
* _Py_CoerceLegacyLocale() now takes an int rather than
_PyCoreConfig for the warning.
On HP-UX with C or POSIX locale, sys.getfilesystemencoding() now returns
"ascii" instead of "roman8" (when the UTF-8 Mode is disabled and the C locale
is not coerced).
nl_langinfo(CODESET) announces "roman8" whereas it uses the Latin1
encoding in practice.
bpo-31650, bpo-34170: Replace _Py_CheckHashBasedPycsMode with
_PyCoreConfig._check_hash_pycs_mode. Modify PyInit__imp() and
zipimport to get the parameter from the current interpreter core
configuration.
Remove Include/internal/import.h file.
* Add Include/coreconfig.h
* Move config_*() and _PyCoreConfig_*() functions from Modules/main.c
to a new Python/coreconfig.c file.
* Inline _Py_ReadHashSeed() into config_init_hash_seed()
* Move global configuration variables to coreconfig.c
* Config: Rename ignore_environment field to use_environment.
* _PyCoreConfig_Read(): if isolated is set, use_environment and
site_import are now always set to 0.
* Inline pymain_free_raw() into pymain_free()
* Move config_init_warnoptions() call into pymain_read_conf_impl()
* _PyCoreConfig_Read(): don't replace values if they are already set:
faulthandler, pycache_prefix, home.
* Inline cmdline_get_env_flags() into config_read_env_vars():
_PyCoreConfig_Read() now reads much more environment variables like
PYTHONVERBOSE.
* Allow to override faulthandler and allocator even if dev_mode=1.
PYTHONMALLOC is now the priority over PYTHONDEVMODE.
* Fix _PyCoreConfig_Copy(): copy also install_signal_handlers,
coerce_c_locale and coerce_c_locale_warn
* _PyCoreConfig.install_signal_handlers default is now 1: install
signals by default
* Fix also a compiler warning: don't define _PyPathConfig type twice.
* If _Py_InitializeCore() is called twice, the second call now copies
and apply (partially) the new configuration.
* Rename _Py_CommandLineDetails to _PyCmdline
* Move more code into pymain_init(). The core configuration created
by Py_Main() is new destroyed before running Python to reduce the
memory footprint.
* _Py_InitializeCore() now returns the created interpreter.
_Py_InitializeMainInterpreter() now expects an interpreter.
* Remove _Py_InitializeEx_Private(): _freeze_importlib now uses
_Py_InitializeFromConfig()
* _PyCoreConfig_InitPathConfig() now only computes the path
configuration if needed.
Add more fields to _PyCoreConfig:
* _check_hash_pycs_mode
* bytes_warning
* debug
* inspect
* interactive
* legacy_windows_fs_encoding
* legacy_windows_stdio
* optimization_level
* quiet
* unbuffered_stdio
* user_site_directory
* verbose
* write_bytecode
Changes:
* Remove pymain_get_global_config() and pymain_set_global_config()
which became useless. These functions have been replaced by
_PyCoreConfig_GetGlobalConfig() and
_PyCoreConfig_SetGlobalConfig().
* sys.flags.dont_write_bytecode value is now restricted to 1 even if
-B option is specified multiple times on the command line.
* PyThreadState_Clear() now uses the config from the current
interpreter rather than using global Py_VerboseFlag
* _PyCoreConfig: add isolated and site_import attributes
* Replace Py_IgnoreEnvironment with config->ignore_environment when
reading the current configuration
* _PyCoreConfig_Read() now sets ignore_environment, utf8_mode,
isolated and site_import from Py_IgnoreEnvironment, Py_UTF8Mode,
Py_IsolatedFlag and Py_NoSiteFlag
* _Py_InitializeCore() now sets Py_xxx flags from the configuration
* pymain_read_conf() now uses _PyCoreConfig_Copy() to save/restore
the configuration.
* Rename _disable_importlib of _PyCoreConfig to _install_importlib
* _PyCoreConfig_SetGlobalConfig() now also set
Py_HashRandomizationFlag
* Replace !Py_NoSiteFlag with core_config->site_import
