Message 139131 - Python tracker

Message139131

Author	neologix
Recipients	gps, neologix, vstinner
Date	2011-06-25.23:40:27
SpamBayes Score	4.1771298e-07
Marked as misclassified	No
Message-id	<1309045228.33.0.659157999882.issue11870@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
In-reply-to

Content
> This skip gives very few information, and it is duplicated for each > function. I would prefer a constant of the "broken OSes" with your > following comment attached to the constant: Ok, I'll try to write something along those lines. > If the creation of a thread after a fork is reliable on some systems, > we should not deny the creation of new threads after a fork. Well, the problem is that it is not reliable on any platform, but happens to work "most of the time" on some platforms ;-)

Content

> This skip gives very few information, and it is duplicated for each 
> function. I would prefer a constant of the "broken OSes" with your 
> following comment attached to the constant:

Ok, I'll try to write something along those lines.

> If the creation of a thread after a fork is reliable on some systems,
> we should not deny the creation of new threads after a fork.

Well, the problem is that it is not reliable on any platform, but happens to work "most of the time" on some platforms ;-)

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2011-06-25 23:40:28	neologix	set	recipients: + neologix, vstinner, gps
2011-06-25 23:40:28	neologix	set	messageid: <1309045228.33.0.659157999882.issue11870@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-06-25 23:40:27	neologix	link	issue11870 messages
2011-06-25 23:40:27	neologix	create