From: "Matthias Urlichs" <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:41:25 +0100
To: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, molnar@elte.hu,
       phil-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: BUG: NTPL: waitpid() doesn't return?
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Hi,

bert hubert:
> This means your situation is different from what you describe. Python may
> not in fact be doing 'real' threading on your setup.

Well, the strace was from Python, so probably I was missing something...
but I can't think of anything not-real which Python does, except that it
does synchronize its internal state with MANY futex calls.  ;-)

> make the smallest possible python program that exhibits the program and send
> it to the list.
> 
I'll do that.

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Matthias Urlichs     |     noris network AG     |     http://smurf.noris.de/
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