this has been fixed since 2.6 (I love removing these)

diff --git a/Lib/test/crashers/multithreaded_close.py b/Lib/test/crashers/multithreaded_close.py
deleted file mode 100644 (file)
index 5224341..0000000
--- a/Lib/test/crashers/multithreaded_close.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-# f.close() is not thread-safe: calling it at the same time as another
-# operation (or another close) on the same file, but done from another
-# thread, causes crashes.  The issue is more complicated than it seems,
-# witness the discussions in:
-#
-# http://bugs.python.org/issue595601
-# http://bugs.python.org/issue815646
-
-import thread
-
-while 1:
-    f = open("multithreaded_close.tmp", "w")
-    thread.start_new_thread(f.close, ())
-    f.close()