thread wierdness

[anton wilson]

On Friday 26 July 2002 03:51 pm, Tim Peters wrote:
> [anton wilson]
>
> > Ok, I see that python creates an init thread when the first
> > thread is being created that sits there and does nothing but loop.
> > That seems very pointless although I'm sure there is a reason for this.
>
> Try writing an equivalent C program and see what happens.  This is almost
> certainly something being done by your C runtime library, and/or OS.


Yes, strangely enough it is . . .

Anton