I am looking for an answer on python threads lock behaviour. So far, i have not managed to get an answer on #python, whatsup,#twisted,google... If i have many threads running and there is a resource all want to posses using a lock, i.e., lock.acquire(). one obviously is going to posses the lock. My question is, when it is released using lock.release() which of the threads is going to acquire the lock? is it a random process or a FIFO order. I am trying to understand if starvation is possible in this particular instance.
My other question, is what is more efficient: using locks, conditions, events, queues. i.e. i am building a server and i want to avoid unneccessary polling operations. 10x. -- Regards, Tzahi. -- Tzahi Fadida Blog: http://tzahi.blogsite.org | Home Site: http://tzahi.webhop.info WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html
