Interrput a thread

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Jan 3, 3:22 pm, gervaz <ger... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 Gen, 17:47, de... at web.de (Diez B. Roggisch) wrote:
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> > gervaz <ger... at gmail.com> writes:
> > > On 31 Dic 2010, 23:25, Alice Bevan–McGregor <al... at gothcandy.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >> On 2010-12-31 10:28:26 -0800, John Nagle said:
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> > >> > Even worse, sending control-C to a multi-thread program
> > >> > is unreliable in CPython.  See "http://blip.tv/file/2232410"
> > >> > for why.  It's painful.
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> > >> AFIK, that has been resolved in Python 3.2 with the introduction of an
> > >> intelligent thread scheduler as part of the GIL release/acquire process.
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> > >>         - Alice.
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> > > Ok, but then suppose I have multiple long running threads that I want
> > > to delete/suspend because they are tooking too much time, which
> > > solution do you propose?
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> > If possible, use multiple processes instead.
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> > Diez- Nascondi testo citato
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> > - Mostra testo citato -
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> Multiple processes, ok, but then regarding processes' interruption
> there will be the same problems pointed out by using threads?
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No.  Processes can be terminated easily on all major platforms.  See
`os.kill`.

Jean-Paul