Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment:
I hadn't seen this issue existed. This has been done in r80071 (see issue
#7316).
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resolution: - out of date
status: open - closed
superseder: - Add a timeout functionality to common locking operations
Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk added the comment:
Is anybody with knowledge of the threading module likely to pick this one up?
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nosy: +BreamoreBoy
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New submission from Gregory P. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Currently the threading module has loops in it such as
threading.Condition.wait's loop that attempts to acquire a lock in
non-blocking mode and if it fails, sleeps for a while and trys again.
(with exponential backoff of sleep time from
