[Python-Dev] Re: threading and forking and 2.0 (patch #101226) (original) (raw)

David Ascher DavidA@ActiveState.com
Thu, 24 Aug 2000 22:07:02 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Guido van Rossum wrote:

(4) MORE WORK: (a) The PyThread API also defines semaphores, which may have a similar problem. But I'm not aware of any use of these (I'm not quite sure why semaphore support was added), so I haven't patched these.

IIRC, we had a discussion a while back about semaphore support in the PyThread API and agreed that they were not implemented on enough platforms to be a useful part of the PyThread API. I can't find it right now, alas.

--david