Re: [Orbit-python-list] Orbit-python and threading?

[Jason T. <ta...@li...>]

On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 15:35, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> Okay. This is a feature that we have been desiring for a while now, and if
> Tack thinks it's okay, i'd like to do a 0.3.2 pre-version that includes

Well this is certainly something for 0.4.0, and not 0.3.x.  My first
instinct was to reject this approach and say I'd much rather do it a
less kludgey way (that is, make o-p thread-safe).  Now that I think of
it, I think that the orbit2 port Johan is working on is really the way
to go with this one, because orbit2 is (purportedly) thread-safe.

I suspect that 0.5.0 may not work out as I planned in the road map I
posted a few months ago.  I think I may focus on standards compliance
for 0.4.0, since stability is nearly there now, and after that maybe
help Johan with the orbit2 port.

That said, I still maintain your patch is something for 0.4.0 and not
0.3.2, so we'll look at that more closely when the time comes.

> I'm surprised your threading example doesn't crash, but I don't know
> threading very well at all. Tack? :)

It doesn't crash because orbit-python has the global interpreter lock
before it calls ORB.run(), so essentially all the other threads get
suspended.  (Specifically, they're waiting for the interpreter lock to
be released.)

Jason.