[issue30676] Potential for GIL deadlock on Windows in threadmodule acquire_lock

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[issue30676] Potential for GIL deadlock on Windows in threadmodule acquire_lock

New submission from Stephan R.A. Deibel: In acquire_timed in _threadmodule.c (used to implement threading lock acquire()) there is an optimization from https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e75ff35af2b6c85d48c68b95f295aeac7396b162 that says it first tries non-blocking lock w/o releasing the