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gh-89977: Keep the GIL for short socket calls - #157981
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Follow up on gh-89977 with a narrow set of normally short system calls:
Keep the GIL during socket
setblocking(),getsockname(),getpeername(), and POSIXgethostname().These calls are not guaranteed to complete immediately on every platform, but the usual short path avoids a GIL release and reacquisition that can cause a thread handoff under contention.
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