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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:25:38 -0400
From: Doug Philips <dgou AT mac DOT com>
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Subject: Python 2.4.1 locking bug. (was: Re: rebaseall failure?)
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On Wednesday, July 27, 2005, at 04:50PM, Jason Tishler indited:

>> Of course none of this fixes my real problem with why Python is unable
>> to get a lock...
>
>I was able to reproduce your problem.

Thank you, it is nice to know it wasn't just some anomaly due to my system being misconfigured.


>So far, I found from stracing the following:
>
>    7743  884473 [main] python2.4 3916 __set_errno: int semaphore::_trywait():1761 val 11
>
>Unfortunately, I won't have the time to debug further for a while.  And,
>to be honest, I'm lacking the motivation too...

I _suspect_ that this is related to the PTHREAD mutex change in the 1.5.18 release.
So perhaps it wasn't benign for Python, but just didn't show up in the Python self-tests.
At least, that it what I gather from you being able to reproduce the bug.

Thanks,
     --Doug


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