[Tutor] Questions about threads

[Andrei Kulakov]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:18:54PM +0200, A wrote:
> Hi,
> Can anybody please answer my questions?
> 
> 1. In my application  I need one function to run in threads. The 
> number of threads is chosen by user and numbers of threads can 
> not be higher at one time. 
> This function writes to a file also.How can I prevent other threads 
> from writting to this file when the file is open by another thread ?

I never done this, but I guess you should 'lock' the file, that is, set a
global var file_locked to 1, then open file, write to it, then set
file_locked to 0. There may be some gotchas here, I'm not sure if this is
bullet-proof.

> 
> 2. How can one process control another? For example: my 
> program tries to connect to a server over phone.  I want  to cancel 
> dial up connection if there is timeout. How can that be done in 
> Python?

Through global variables, like in above example.

> 

> Thank you very much for help.
> Ladislav
> 
> 
> 
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