[Python-Dev] bsddb test case deadlocks fixed
Alex Martelli
aleaxit at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 4 03:12:23 EST 2003
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 02:23 am, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
...
> There are no deadlock problems in the current 2.3.2 bsddb module as
> it does not have thread support enabled (meaning is likely to crash if
> someone uses it from multiple threads at once).
Ah! Shows you how much I understood of your patch -- I hadn't grasped this!
> Net effect on release23-branch if we did this today:
>
> + multithreaded bsddb use now allowed (instead of crashes or corruption)
Generally, extending functionality (as opposed to: fixing bugs or clarifying
docs) is not a goal for 2.3.* -- but I don't know if the fact that bsddb
isn't thread-safe in 2.3 counts as "a bug", or rather as functionality
deliberately kept limited, to avoid e.g such bugs as the one you've just
removed, and other possibilities you mention:
> - multithreaded bsddb use could deadlock depending on how it is used.
I think that just having the 2.3.* docs explicitly mention the lack of
thread-safety might then perhaps be better than backporting the changes.
Alex
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