[Python-checkins] CVS: python/nondist/peps pep-0200.txt,1.36,1.37

[Tim Peters]

Update of /cvsroot/python/python/nondist/peps
In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv24827

Modified Files:
	pep-0200.txt 
Log Message:
Record that test_popen2 on Windows failed again, and why.
Removed the line about "Windows threads problems" because I believe
the test_popen2 failure is what that was talking about.


Index: pep-0200.txt
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/nondist/peps/pep-0200.txt,v
retrieving revision 1.36
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -C2 -r1.36 -r1.37
*** pep-0200.txt	2000/09/01 03:06:39	1.36
--- pep-0200.txt	2000/09/01 07:04:59	1.37
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*** 96,100 ****
  
      Add popen2 support for Linux -- Fred Drake
-     There are some threads problems on windows...
  
      Deal with buffering problem with SocketServer -- GvR
--- 96,99 ----
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*** 176,179 ****
--- 175,187 ----
  
      test_popen2       Win32       26-Jul-2000
+         [31-Aug-2000 tim
+          This died again, but for an entirely different reason:  it uses a
+          dict to map file pointers to process handles, and calls a dict 
+          access function during popen.close().  But .close releases threads,
+          which left the internal popen code accessing the dict without a 
+          valid thread state.  The dict implementation changed so that's no
+          longer accepted.  Fixed by creating a temporary thread state in the
+          guts of popen's close routine, and grabbing the global lock with
+          it for the duration]
          [20-Aug-2000 tim
           changed the popen2.py _test function to use the "more" cmd