Prior to this commit the following code would lock up the device when
Ctrl-D is entered at the REPL:
import gc, _thread
def collect_thread():
while True:
gc.collect()
_thread.start_new_thread(collect_thread, [])
Fixes part of #8494.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
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