On 6/6/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Jewett wrote: > > > For pkgutil in particular, the change is that instead of writing to > > stderr (which can scroll off and get lost), it will write to the > > errorlog. In a truly default setup, that still ends up writing to > > stderr. > > umm. if pkgutil fails to open a pkg file, isn't it rather likely that > the program will terminate with an ImportError a few milliseconds later?
Maybe a mean time of a few milliseconds later. It really depends on the operating system's scheduler. If the failure occurs just at the end of a scheduler quantum, the process may not run again for some time. This would happen regardless of whether the operating system was modern. Jeremy _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
