Hi Laurie,
many thanks for the patch. The code is tricky and not the nicest one; it
is still waiting for a serious cleanup, so I really appreciate your effort!
On 01.12.07, Laurence Tratt wrote:
> Myself and Eric Faurot have recently ported PyX to OpenBSD. This was mostly
> a simple affair, but there is one serious bug in PyX 0.10 which causes
> frequent crashes when calling TeX. Eric has spent some time tracking this
> down, and has resolved the problem on OpenBSD. In Eric's words this was due
> to "an interrupted read, and a thread starting too early". Since there's
> nothing obviously OpenBSD-looking about his patch, I am hopeful that it will
> not impact on other platforms.
Calling start in the thread constructor is indeed not correct.
Concerning the interrupted read, that's also a good catch! I would only
prefer to use the errno provided in the errno module: errno.EINTR.
Btw, I recently had some problems with PyX under Windows in combination
with the TeXLive distribution and now wonder whether your patch would
have also helped... I never got around to look into it more seriously,
though.
If I remember correctly, the problem in the example file just appears
in the released tarball, and should not be present in the SVN
repository.
> Please find both patches at the end of this mail. It would be great if they
> could be included in the next version of PyX!
Done.
Joerg
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