[Python-Dev] thread_foobar.h routines

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Tue, 15 Jan 2002 23:00:38 -0500 (EST)


Guido van Rossum writes:
 > Me too.  The PyThread_*_sema routines are not used, and I would
 > recommend that you not bother implementing them at all.  (If anyone
 > used them, we would have heard a complaint -- in some thread
 > implementations these return -1 for failure, in others 0.  :-)
 > 
 > We should cut these out of the sources.

I'll be glad to do this.  A quick grep seems to show that this really
does apply to *all* PyThread_*_sema() routines.

If there are no objections, I'll have this done quickly.


  -Fred

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