I'm using the Python 2.2.1 interpreter for scripting
language in a larger program. When I used the threading
module to create new threads, my main program did not
exit anymore, but hang, because one python thread
always remained.
It got much better when I inserted a call to
pthread_exit into do_PyThread_exit_thread
(thread_pthread.h).

Patchfile is attached.

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Michael do you still have this problem with 2.2.2 or do you
still require this patch?

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I'm using Python 2.2.1 (Unix) in a daemon process that starts 
child threads to handle specific events. I have noticed that 
occasionally (not all the time) child thread "stays" (in a 
SLEEPING) status after thread exits. When this happens, that 
thread never exits until entire process is stopped.

I have log files that have output coming from threading 
module (I have set threading._VERBOSE to 1) that show each 
thread's start and termination events. In addition, I use 
Queue module for inter-thread communication (when thread 
starts execution, it posts "START" message, and when it is 
about to exit its run() method, it posts "END" event).

So, from these logs and from output of "ps -fp <PID> -
o 'user,pid,ppid,pgid,time,stime,lwp,s'" I can see that some 
threads exit (which is indicated by _VERBOSE output and a 
message in a Queue), but still stay (in a SLEEPING state) in 
the process.

Does this behavior have something to do with the problem 
described in this report, or is it something different?

Is there patch (full instalation package) that fixes this 
problem (without me having to update source code and 
recompile the executable)?

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Please, could you verify if this problem persists in Python 2.3.4
or 2.4?

If yes, in which version? Can you provide a test case?

If the problem is solved, from which version?

Note that if you fail to answer in one month, I'll close this bug
as "Won't fix".

Thank you! 

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Deprecated. Reopen only if still happens in 2.3 or newer. 

.    Facundo