Irix and threading

[Joe Connellan]

It looks to have been a problem with Tkinter and threads on irix. I had
a misconfiguration with tkinter and python2.1a which is now fixed and it
runs properly - but still not with python2.0 or python1.5. Any python
release I've tried seems to work fine on Linux.

so problem fixed.


Joe Connellan wrote:
> 
> I'm having a problem with badly behaving threads when using the "thread"
> module on irix. Running the same python/tkinter script on linux runs
> fine, but when running it on irix it seems to spawn the threads if and
> only if it feels like it. I have been able to get threads going in non
> tkinter scripts for irix, but they still don't behave well. eg the first
> thread will run for a long period, then the second will run for a long
> period, etc. I have tried this with python1.5 python2.0 and python2.1a
> all making sure that thread support was compiled in.
> 
> has anyone else had a similar problem and managed to get around it?
> 
> Thanks