Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> How would you propose to fix file_repr to prevent such
> a race condition?
Ross Ridge schrieb:
> The race condition you describe is different from the one Joe Seigh
> described. It's caused because without GIL access to the file object
> is no longer thread safe, not because reference counting isn't thread
> safe.
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Joe's claim (quoting him) was: "Atomic increment and decrement
> instructions are not by themselves sufficient to make reference
> counting safe."
So give an example where reference counting is unsafe.
Remember that I only said that Joe Seigh's statement didn't make sense,
not that I had some magic solution that would somehow make Python
thread safe without locking.
Ross Ridge
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