2011/9/8 Kristján Valur Jónsson <[email protected]>:
> Well, we don't keep track of tasklets anywhere.

No?  What goes on at interpreter shut down?  Don't we go through the
list of tasklets in some function there killing them?  I seem to
recall fixing a crash bug there at some stage in the past.

If a thread exits and there are tasklets that have hard switched, I
think that there is no other choice but to explicitly kill them.
Letting those that don't rely on thread stack space continue to exist,
is no problem.

> Even without extra threads, python can exit when there is a tasklet is 
> detached.  It may get killed when its final reference goes away, but it has 
> nothing to do with the main thread exiting.
> I don't think we ought to have some catalog of tasklets to clean up when a 
> thread goes away.  It is always possible for other threads to have access to 
> those tasklets anyway and keep them alive.  The only thing that could be done 
> were to have the cstate->tstate somehow magically cleared....
> That ought to be possible, with special logic.  Keep a list of cstates in the 
> tstate to clear when the tstate dies....

What are the repercussions of keeping a tasklet alive, but killing the
cstate from underneath it?  It sounds a bit.. sloppy, or maybe I am
missing something?

Cheers,
Richard.

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