[Python-Dev] Threading idea -- exposing a global thread lock

[Samuele Pedroni]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:

> [Samuele Pedroni]
>
>> there's no sys.checkinterval in Jython. Implementing this would need the
>> introduction of some kind of GIL implementation in Jython, the JVM 
>> has no primitive for global critical sections.
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>
> Wouldn't Java implement this directly by suspending and resuming the 
> other threads (being careful to avoid access to monitored resources 
> and to pair the suspend/resume operations in a try/finally or 
> with-statement to prevent deadlocks)?

suspending a thread is a deprecated operation because it can cause 
deadlocks.