Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2001/09/24/09:24:13
Jason Tishler writes:
>
>On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 02:06:04PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> > From: Jason Tishler [mailto:jason AT tishler DOT net]
>> > I'm leaning toward holding off releasing a threaded Python until your
>> > muto upgrade in complete. Do you concur?
>>
>> So it's up to you really. I don't know when I'll get it done, (all my
>> current hack time is on the daemon/setup). How often does it
>occur? Is
>> it in the test suite only?
>
>So far, the only time that I use the threading in threaded Python
>is when I run the regression test. I have only seen the hang is one
>thread related regression test: test_threadedtempfile.py. This test
>spawns a lot of threads which I guess increases the probability that a
>hang occurs. Maybe under normal conditions, the race condition won't
>happen too frequently (of course, until I release a threaded
>Python...).
>
>Norman, would you care to comment on the above? Do you use threaded
>Cygwin Python? If so, have you seen this or other thread
>related hangs?
I have been using a locally compiled threaded version of python for a while
and can't say that I have seen any problems.
BUT I have not been doing a lot of thread related stuff.
FWIW I think that we should force the issue and configure python to
use threads ie
./configure; make; instead of ./configure --disable-threads; make
IMHO This is the only way to get wide testing and the core python
development teams attention if we do encounter problems !
< Easy enough for me to say since I am not the maintainer :-) >
Cheers
Norman
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