Hello All, In my program, I have a main thread which is the GUI (wxPython) and then a thread which goes and reads data from a socket. The reason this is in a different thread is because the data might take some time to come back, and I want to have the GUI to be responsive during this wait.
When I run my program in Linux, a segmentation fault occurs. When I run it in Windows XP, it works just fine. The main thing that would be of interest is as follows: The segmentation fault does NOT occur if I disable the threads and read the data all in 1 thread (the main thread [gui's]). This leads me to believe it is some sort of threading problem related to linux. However, I personally dont think that it can be something wrong with my code, since my program runs perfectly fine in WindowsXP. I am also carefully protecting data that my threads share with the MainGUI using a Queue and also a semaphore lock. I know this is kind of hard to answer without any code, but would anybody know of some kind of issue such as this where there is some threading problems with Linux and not Windows. I am happy to send the code to anybody who wishes to see it. I havent posted it here because it is kind of lengthy. Also, I should note that I think we are running Linux Kernel 2.4 thanks a lot for your help, Kiran -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
