[Python-ideas] Async API: some code to review

Mark Hackett mark.hackett at metoffice.gov.uk
Mon Oct 29 17:47:46 CET 2012


On Monday 29 Oct 2012, Richard Oudkerk wrote:
> On Windows writes to pipes in message oriented mode are also atomic.
> 

PS this means, like I said maybe, that you have to be running an IPC message 
to get guaranteed atomic writes.

If someone has their python programming with multiple thread accessing the 
pipe, but that pipe is NOT running in message oriented mode, then you will get 
corruption.



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