[Python-Dev] New canonical location for PEPs (original) (raw)

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:06:44 -0500

"MvL" == Martin v Loewis <martin@v.loewis.de> writes:

MvL> Every time I tried to setup such a scheme, I found that it
MvL> would deadlock: while the loginfo code runs, the committer
MvL> still holds the lock. Then, the trigger would initiate code
MvL> on the remote machine, which in turn tries a CVS update. That
MvL> will then wait for the lock.

MvL> How do you solve this problem?

syncmail has the same problem; it solves it by forking() a child process which waits a second or two. Sucks, but I know of no other way.

-Barry