Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > if _POSIX_SEMAPHORES is defined, thread_pthread.h is designed to use > the (fair) semaphore. If it is not present, or > HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES defined, the semaphore is supposed to be > emulated using a condition variable. > Now, I don't have access to a mac or linux machine, but does a modern > python build perhaps actually have USE_SEMAPHORES defined?
Yes, it does. Actually, I find it unlikely that any modern Unix would fall back on the non-semaphore version. All this code is (mostly) very old. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8299> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
