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  r83921 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-08-10 01:39:31 +0200 (mar., 10 août 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
  Interpreter Lock around all system calls.  Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
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Misc/ACKS

@@ -409,6 +409,7 @@ Jacob Kaplan-Moss
 Lou Kates
 Hiroaki Kawai
 Sebastien Keim
+Ryan Kelly
 Robert Kern
 Randall Kern
 Magnus Kessler

Misc/NEWS

@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
+  Interpreter Lock around all system calls.  Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
+
 - Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
   Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
   timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.

Modules/posixmodule.c

@@ -2127,7 +2127,9 @@ posix_listdir(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
             free(wnamebuf);
             return NULL;
         }
+        Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
         hFindFile = FindFirstFileW(wnamebuf, &wFileData);
+        Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
         if (hFindFile == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
             int error = GetLastError();
             if (error == ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) {
@@ -2197,7 +2199,9 @@ posix_listdir(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
     if ((d = PyList_New(0)) == NULL)
         return NULL;
 
+    Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
     hFindFile = FindFirstFile(namebuf, &FileData);
+    Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
     if (hFindFile == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
         int error = GetLastError();
         if (error == ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)