On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 01:17:03AM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
If there exists a platform on which it fails but it doesn't fail every time on that platform, that would be strong evidence of a timing hole. Those usually require <gasp!> thought to identify and repair. I'll voluteer to eyeball the code and do some thinking, but not unless the symptoms suggest that's worthwhile.
ignorantly y'rs - tim
Here is some code that seems to hang on Linux UP machines. Sometimes it prints PIDS for a while and other times it stops after only a few. I don't know if that counts. I raised this issue over a month ago. Tim, your getting forgetful. :) Neil import threading import os, sys class MyThread(threading.Thread): def start(self): threading.Thread.start(self) def run(self): while 1: if os.fork() == 0: print os.getpid() os._exit(0) os.wait() MyThread().start() MyThread().start() MyThread().start()