[Python-Dev] Adding library modules to the core (original) (raw)

Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com
Tue, 8 Aug 2000 12:07:15 -0400

Vladimir Marangozov <Vladimir.Marangozov@inrialpes.fr>:

Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > At the moment, core Python has nothing (with the weak and nonportable > exception of open(..., OEXCL)) that can do semaphores properly. Thus > shm would address a real gap in the language.

There's a Semaphore class in Lib/threading.py. Are there any problems with it? I haven't used it, but threading.py has thread mutexes and semaphores on top of them, so as long as you don't need IPC, they should be fine. Or am I missing something?

If I'm not mistaken, that's semaphores across a thread bundle within a single process. It's semaphores visible across processes that I don't think we currently have a facility for.

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