Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <[email protected]> added the comment: > can't we raise a RuntimeError on a deadlock?
Deadlock detection is difficult, and probably impossible if the involved locks don't use the same underlying mechanism. (A lock can be a pthread object, a file opened with os.O_EXCL, and even a loop that tests some atomic variable) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <[email protected]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10923> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
