New submission from Tom Cook <tom.k.c...@gmail.com>:
If nothing connects to it, `multiprocessing.connection.Listener.accept()` will
block forever with no good way to interrupt it.
Supposing that a thread implements a loop like this:
def run(self):
l = Listener(socket_path, 'AF_UNIX')
while self.running:
c = l.accept()
while self.running:
data = c.recv()
self.process(data)
There is no obvious way to implement a `stop` method on this thread. Setting
`self.running = False` may never result in the thread terminating, as it may be
that no client connects to it. The following is a possible way of implementing
it:
def stop(self):
self.running = False
try:
c = Client(socket_path, 'AF_UNIX')
except:
pass
however it seems fraught with race conditions. Letting `accept()` accept a
timeout would be a much cleaner solution to this and many similar problems.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 307809
nosy: Tom Cook
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Multiprocessing: multiprocessing.connection.Listener.accept() should
accept a timeout
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.6
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<https://bugs.python.org/issue32244>
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