Let's see:
network lookups would fail, sometimes, strangely,
signals would be delivered to _all_ children (not just the one
that had installed a signal handler) -- so if you had an external
method that popen'd another program, when the SIGCHLD came in, it
would kill the mainloop.
The signals were the really shocking problem.
Anthony.
>>> Tony McDonald wrote
> At 5:48 pm +1000 19/5/00, Anthony Baxter wrote:
> >If you're running a Zope on Solaris2.7 and you're seeing strange
> >behaviour, make sure that your python executable's been built and
> >linked with pthreads, not solaris threads. I've just had a horrible
> >time figuring out why I was seeing very strange behaviour on Solaris
> >until I noticed this.
> >
> >ldd `which python` should show /usr/lib/libpthread.so, NOT
> >/usr/lib/libthread.so.
>
> Can you tell us what kind of behaviour Anthony?
>
> I'm using 2.6 on our main box (and 2.7 on another dev. box).
>
> cheers,
> tone
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