need to suspend/resume a child thread

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-11-13 02:57, scsoce wrote:
> A child thread has a long-time executions, how to suspend it and resume
> back the orignial place ? I know it' nature to use singal, but  child
> thread cannot get signal as Python Manual say.  And i dnt like to  check
> status variable  as the long-time executions can not or be dirty to stop
> to do check.

I'm not sure I understand... the OS will take care of all this
for you.

If you want to suspend the execution of a thread you have
to explicitly code for this in the code running in that thread
and use e.g. a semaphore or thread lock.

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