Threading legality/morality

[hungjunglu at yahoo.com]

--- In python-list at y..., "Syver Enstad" <syver at N...> wrote:
> 
> "John J. Lee" <phrxy at c...> wrote in message > Perhaps you're
> right, but I've seen the same behaiviour on win95, without
> > multi-threading.  When you run command-line (do we mean the same 
thing by
> > console and command-line?) apps it freezes until a key gets 
pressed.  Not
> > using urllib either.
> >
> > It is possible (likely, even) that I was using cygwin, so maybe 
that's
> > where the blame lies.  I'll see if I can reproduce it with the 
standard
> > DOS shell.
> 
> I am using console program/command line whatever you like, and I am 
not
> using Cygwin. I've experienced this both on the BeOpen and 
ActiveState
> distros.

For whatever it's worth, I tried to build Python2.0 from source on 
cygwin, and it has problem with some pthread thing. I had to disable 
thread support when doing ./configure. If I have to guess, cygwin may 
have problems with thread support.

Hung Jung