[Python-Dev] Re: test_bsddb blocks testing popitem - reason

Alex Martelli aleaxit at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 2 06:11:33 EST 2003


On Sunday 02 November 2003 11:00 am, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
   ...
> > So, maybe, we could get away with something a bit less rich here?
>
> I just implemented and committed something about that rich.

Super!  I've just updated, built, and re-run all tests (on 2.4), and they
all go smoothly.

> My commit fixed the deadlock problem for the single threaded case and
> wrote a test case to prove it.  I opened a SF bug to track fixing the
> deadlock possibilities in the multithreaded case (and a memory leak i
> believe i added).

OK, I understand this fix isn't the be-all end-all, but still, it makes things
much better than they were before.  *THANKS*!


Alex




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