Issue #18808: Thread.join() now waits for the underlying thread state to be destroyed before returning.

This prevents unpredictable aborts in Py_EndInterpreter() when some non-daemon threads are still running.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/_dummy_thread.py b/Lib/_dummy_thread.py
index 13b1f26965..b67cfb95be 100644
--- a/Lib/_dummy_thread.py
+++ b/Lib/_dummy_thread.py
@@ -81,6 +81,10 @@ def stack_size(size=None):
         raise error("setting thread stack size not supported")
     return 0
 
+def _set_sentinel():
+    """Dummy implementation of _thread._set_sentinel()."""
+    return LockType()
+
 class LockType(object):
     """Class implementing dummy implementation of _thread.LockType.