[Python-Dev] New branch for r23c2 work

Barry Warsaw barry@python.org
21 Jul 2003 19:00:26 -0400


On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 18:36, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     Martin> Just thinks that getaddrinfo is not thread-safe on OSX, so it
>     Martin> needs to use a lock around getaddrinfo.
> 
> I've been thusfar unable to get the code in getaddrinfo.c to compile as part
> of socketmodule.c (errors about missing #defines and struct members).
> Unless maybe Barry or Jack can figure out what the problem is, I think
> solving this particular performance problem may have to wait until after the
> 2.3 release.

I don't see myself having any more time to dig into this.  I say if it
doesn't get resolved, we'll leave it in the old state (which works, but
is slow), and add a release note about it in the known bugs section. 

-Barry