I'm curious what would happen if two separate reactor callLater() methods were executed on two separate functions (we'll call them a() and b()) ... such that a() and b() would be scheduled to run at the same exact moment. How would Twisted handled such a situation? Is there such a thing as callLater() "collision" even if the probability of such collission is quite low? Cheers, Serg

From: Matt Goodall <matt@pollenation.net> Reply-To: Twisted general discussion <twisted-python@twistedmatrix.com> To: Twisted discussion stuff <twisted-python@twistedmatrix.com> Subject: Re: [Twisted-Python] reactor.stop stops entire twistd Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:15:50 +0100

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 09:41, Tsai Li Ming wrote:

...

Hi,

I have the following codes:

site = server.Site(Core()) application = service.Application('server') sc = service.IServiceCollection(application) q = internet.TCPServer(8081, site) q.setServiceParent(sc)

# twistd -y server.tac

The core class uses methods that uses getProcessOutput, reactor.run aad reactor.stop. However, the whole application gets shutdown because of the reactor.stop.

How do I avoid having my entire application getting stopped?

Calling reactor.stop() is supposed to shutdown the application (see below) so please could you explain what you actually wanted to stop by calling reactor.stop().

In the meantime, here's a couple of points to consider ...

1. The reactor is the event loop for the process and, once running, *everything* happens because of an event. If you stop the reactor then you are explicitly telling the reactor to stop processing events and end the application.

2. twistd manages the creation and activation of the reactor for you (as well as other useful stuff such as logging). You should not call reactor.run() in your application.

Cheers, Matt

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