"Hendrik van Rooyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Fredrik Lundh <fredr...ware.com> wrote: > >>sounds like he wants/needs non-cooperative, mandatory locking.
More accurately, he THINKS he wants/needs mandatory locking. We need to find out what he's really trying to accomplish before we can suggest something that is actually achievable. >Could one get there using ctypes to disable interrupts? No. That can't be done in user mode in any operating system where Python runs. Even in kernel mode, it's not reliable, because disabling interrupts only affects one core. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
