I've made a patch. It works except scenario described by Christian Heimes. See details in http://bugs.python.org/issue18882
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Le Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:06:11 +0200, > Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> a écrit : >> Am 30.08.2013 11:39, schrieb Antoine Pitrou: >> > >> > Le Fri, 30 Aug 2013 12:24:07 +0300, >> > Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svet...@gmail.com> a écrit : >> >> Main thread is slightly different from others. >> >> Signals can be subscribed from main thread only. >> >> Tulip has special logic for main thread. >> >> In application code we can explicitly know which thread is >> >> executed, main or not. >> >> But from library it's not easy. >> >> Tulip uses check like >> >> threading.current_thread().name == 'MainThread' >> >> This approach has a problem: thread name is writable attribute and >> >> can be changed by user code. >> > >> > Please at least use: >> > >> > >>> isinstance(threading.current_thread(), threading._MainThread) >> > True >> > >> > But really, what we need is a threading.main_thread() function. >> >> What happens, when a program fork()s from another thread than the main >> thread? AFAIR the other threads are suspended and the forking thread >> is the new main thread. Or something similar... > > Yes. We even support it :-) > http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/c347b9063a9e/Lib/test/test_threading.py#l503 > > (well, whoever wrote that test wanted to support it. I don't think > that's me) > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/andrew.svetlov%40gmail.com -- Thanks, Andrew Svetlov _______________________________________________ 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
