Interrput a thread

[Adam Skutt]

On Jan 3, 4:06 pm, Jean-Paul Calderone <calderone.jeanp... at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> > Multiple processes, ok, but then regarding processes' interruption
> > there will be the same problems pointed out by using threads?
>
> No.  Processes can be terminated easily on all major platforms.  See
> `os.kill`.
>

Yes, but that's not the whole story, now is it?  It's certainly much
more reliable and easier to kill a process.  It's not any easier to do
it and retain defined behavior, depending on exactly what you're
doing.  For example, if you kill it while it's in the middle of
updating shared memory, you can potentially incur undefined behavior
on the part of any process that can also access shared memory.

In short, taking a program that uses threads and shared state and
simply replacing the threads with processes will likely not gain you a
thing.  It entirely depends on what those threads are doing and how
they do it.

Adam