Re: [Python-Dev] Pythreads and BSD descendants

2007-08-04 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Cameron Laird schrieb: Folklore that I remember so unreliably I avoid trying to repeat it here held that Python threading had problems on BSD and allied Unixes. What's the status of this? The problem that people run into again and again is the stack size. The BSDs

Re: [Python-Dev] Pythreads and BSD descendants

2007-08-03 Thread Jon Ribbens
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:08:37PM +, Cameron Laird wrote: Folklore that I remember so unreliably I avoid trying to repeat it here held that Python threading had problems on BSD and allied Unixes. What's the status of this? I suspect the answer is, Everything works, and the only real

Re: [Python-Dev] Pythreads and BSD descendants

2007-08-03 Thread Paul Colomiets
Cameron Laird wrote: Folklore that I remember so unreliably I avoid trying to repeat it here held that Python threading had problems on BSD and allied Unixes. What's the status of this? I suspect the answer is, Everything works, and the only real problem ever was that *signals* have

[Python-Dev] Pythreads and BSD descendants

2007-08-03 Thread Cameron Laird
Folklore that I remember so unreliably I avoid trying to repeat it here held that Python threading had problems on BSD and allied Unixes. What's the status of this? I suspect the answer is, Everything works, and the only real problem ever was that *signals* have different semantics under Linux

Re: [Python-Dev] Pythreads and BSD descendants

2007-08-03 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Cameron Laird schrieb: Folklore that I remember so unreliably I avoid trying to repeat it here held that Python threading had problems on BSD and allied Unixes. What's the status of this? The problem that people run into again and again is the stack size. The BSDs allow for so little stack so