On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 4:01 PM Stephane Tougard via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > On 2020-08-29, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > Under Linux, multiprocessing creates processes using fork(). That > > means > > that, for some fraction of time, you have TWO processes sharing the same > > thread and all that entails (if it doesn't overlay the forked process with > > a new executable, they are sharing the thread until the thread exits). > > same error condition even with the sleep(1) in place. > > I'm not even that makes sense, how 2 processes can share a thread ? >
They can't. However, they can share a Thread object, which is the Python representation of a thread. That can lead to confusion, and possibly the OP's error (I don't know for sure, I'm just positing). ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
