Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > It owns the lock, but hasn't yet updated the lock's owner > (lock->tstate), so another thread calling detect_circularity() will > think that this lock is available, and will proceed, which can > eventually lead to a deadlock.
That's true. Do you think temptatively acquiring the lock (without blocking) would solve the issue? > Also, I think that locks will use POSIX semaphores on systems that > support only a limited number of them (such as FreeBSD 7), and this > might fail in case of nested imports (the infamous ENFILE). I'd have > to double check this, though. Isn't this limit only about named semaphores? Or does it apply to anonymous semaphores as well? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9260> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
