On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, A wrote: > Hi, > Can anybody please answer my questions? > > 1. In my application I need one function to run in threads. The > number of threads is chosen by user and numbers of threads can > not be higher at one time. > This function writes to a file also.How can I prevent other threads > from writting to this file when the file is open by another thread ? Use a threading.Lock or treading.Semaphore to control access to it. > 2. How can one process control another? For example: my > program tries to connect to a server over phone. I want to cancel > dial up connection if there is timeout. How can that be done in > Python? It depends on the process. If it's pppd, then sending it a SIGHUP should do. > Thank you very much for help. > Ladislav -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ ActivePython mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/activepython