Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote:

Threadpool should have a function that lets you run a function in a thread and have the result passed to a Deferred object's callbacks. The callback functions in the Deferred should be run in the a thread-safe way.

There two alternatives:

A third alternative is to make the threadpool a Delayed. If we don't introduce a dependency on twisted.internet, then if the main loop is paused in a select() the callbacks will not be called until the select() times out...

Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote:

Threadpool should have a function that lets you run a function in a thread and have the result passed to a Deferred object's callbacks. The callback functions in the Deferred should be run in the a thread-safe way.

There two alternatives:

A third alternative is to make the threadpool a Delayed. If we don't introduce a dependency on twisted.internet, then if the main loop is paused in a select() the callbacks will not be called until the select() times out...