bpo-44434: Don't call PyThread_exit_thread() explicitly (GH-26758)

_thread.start_new_thread() no longer calls PyThread_exit_thread()

explicitly at the thread exit, the call was redundant.

On Linux with the glibc, pthread_cancel() loads dynamically the

libgcc_s.so.1 library. dlopen() can fail if there is no more

available file descriptor to open the file. In this case, the process

aborts with the error message:

"libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work"

pthread_cancel() unwinds back to the thread's wrapping function that

calls the thread entry point.

The unwind function is dynamically loaded from the libgcc_s library

since it is tightly coupled to the C compiler (GCC). The unwinder

depends on DWARF, the compiler generates DWARF, so the unwinder

belongs to the compiler.

Thanks Florian Weimer and Carlos O'Donell for their help on

investigating this issue.

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/45a78f906d2d5fe5381d78466b11763fc56d57ba

Resolves: rhbz#1972293

diff --git a/Modules/_threadmodule.c b/Modules/_threadmodule.c

index a13b2e0..8cc035b 100644

--- a/Modules/_threadmodule.c

+++ b/Modules/_threadmodule.c

@@ -1027,7 +1027,10 @@ t_bootstrap(void *boot_raw)

     nb_threads--;

     PyThreadState_Clear(tstate);

     PyThreadState_DeleteCurrent();

-    PyThread_exit_thread();

+

+    // bpo-44434: Don't call explicitly PyThread_exit_thread(). On Linux with

+    // the glibc, pthread_exit() can abort the whole process if dlopen() fails

+    // to open the libgcc_s.so library (ex: EMFILE error).

 }

 static PyObject *