On Dec 29, 2010, at 3:49 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> If the functionality is not supported then users get an import error >> (within multiprocessing). However, RDM's understanding is correct, and >> the test is creating more than supported. > > Hmm. The tests do the absolute minimum stuff that exercises the code; > doing anything less, and they would be useless. Of course, one may > wonder why test_first_completed manages to create 41 SemLock objects, > when all it tries to do is two future calls. > > So if the minimal test case fails, I'd claim that the module doesn't > work on FreeBSD, period. ISTM that Posix IPC is just not a feasible > approach to do IPC synchronization on FreeBSD, so it's better to say > that multiprocessing is not supported on FreeBSD (until SysV IPC is > getting used, hoping that this will fare better). > Whatever you choose to say Martin. It does work, and is supported to the limitations that FreeBSD imposes. _______________________________________________ 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
