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Brian Dessent wrote:
> As you can see, this all is contingent upon a program like GDB using the
> Windows debug API.  Without that, the entire issue is irrelevant, so I
> can't see how this possibly would apply to Python.
>   

Thanks for explaining how the Windows debug API is the one
actually catching the exception rather than GDB directly
changing how exceptions are caught.  This is useful.

I will be surprised if there doesn't turn out to be some
commonality between the pthread_mutex_init issue
and something Python is doing either directly or
via the use of dlopen().

Thanks - Jim

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