Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > On pthreads plaforms, if the posix_sem functions aren't available > (when _POSIX_SEMAPHORES isn't defined), the python lock is > implemented with a mutex and a condition variable. This appears to > be the case on Mac OS X, for example. The problem is that this lock > does not provide fairness to threads trying to acquire it.
Why do you think condition variables don't provide fairness? ---------- nosy: +loewis _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8410> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
