Re: [PyX-user] OpenBSD patches

[Laurence T. <la...@tr...>]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:17:02AM +0100, Joerg Lehmann wrote:

Dear Joerg,

>> to "an interrupted read, and a thread starting too early". Since there's
>> nothing obviously OpenBSD-looking about his patch, I am hopeful that it
>> will not impact on other platforms.
> Calling start in the thread constructor is indeed not correct.
>
> Concerning the interrupted read, that's also a good catch! I would only
> prefer to use the errno provided in the errno module: errno.EINTR.
>
> Btw, I recently had some problems with PyX under Windows in combination
> with the TeXLive distribution and now wonder whether your patch would have
> also helped... I never got around to look into it more seriously, though.

It seems quite possible that it might help - OpenBSD has now switched over
to TeXLive, so I would imagine that other platforms than OpenBSD are
effected by the problem the patch addresses. My thanks again to Eric who did
a great job tracking this problem down and fixing it!

Yours,


Laurie
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