[Python-Dev] Add an optional timeout to lock operations

[Antoine Pitrou]

Jesse Noller <jnoller <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Nick is right, many of the BSDs and FreeBSD up until fairly recently  
> did not have named shared semaphore support. Still yet, the behavior  
> is broken on some OSes such as OS X which you have to work around.

The core locking support only uses anonymous semaphores (they don't need to be
shared accross processes obviously).

Regards

Antoine.