[Python-Dev] Issue #10348: concurrent.futures doesn't work on BSD (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at haypocalc.com
Sun Jan 2 14:09:39 CET 2011


Le jeudi 30 décembre 2010 à 17:05 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" a écrit :

> I really don't think it is our job to maintain a list of OS/versions > which work and don't work.

Of course not. I would propose a dynamic test: check how many POSIX semaphores the installation supports, and fail if it's less than 200 (say).

I added informations about FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin and OpenBSD to the issue #10348: http://bugs.python.org/issue10348#msg125042

The maximum number of POSIX semaphores can be read with sysctl:

Victor



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