[Orbit-python-list] Threading support

[Joseph T. B. <jb...@tj...>]

rats, and I was determined to figure it out myself.  Between corba,
orbit, and extending the python interpreter, plus the threads code, it
was taking me longer to wade throught it all than I thought.

I had noticed that the tcl/tk module had essentially the same conditions
for locking.  So I was using it as a model.

One piece of wisdom that I picked up from that work (_tkinter) was the
fact that they have another lock that only lets one thread run inside
the tcl interpreter at a time.  I was concerned about this for the
orbit-python module.

Essentially they only hold the global interpreter lock or the tk lock
exclusive (except for special cases) of each other.  I imagine this
may still be a problem?  Or do you think this is a non issue?

jb

Jason Tackaberry writes:
 > I added the appropriate locks/unlocks to the code to support threading in
 > Python.  I tested it briefly and it seems to work, but there still may be
 > problems.  It only took me a couple minutes, and I'm skeptical to think
 > anything is that simple. :)  Let me know if you run into any bugs.
 > 
 > >From the ChangeLog:
 > 
 >    * server.c, client.c, CORBA_ORB.c: added necessary interpreter unlocking
 >      to support Python threads properly.  (Not very tested, but seems to
 >      work.)
 > 
 > Jason.

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