Petri Lehtinen <pe...@digip.org> added the comment: Vinay Sajip wrote: > @Petri: It's great that it worked for you, but IIRC the syslog module has had > thread-safety issues at least on some platforms, which is why it's not used > in > the SysLogHandler implementation (disclaimer: this was a while ago, I don't > know > if the syslog module is thread-safe now - I believe the thread-safety issues > were in the underlying C APIs).
Ah, I was not aware of thread safety issues. A quick search revealed that there has been a non-standard syslog_r() function that's thread safe, but nowadays POSIX requires syslog() to be thread safe, too. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12168> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
