On 17-apr-2006, at 18:19, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Currently, the readdir() call releases the GIL. I believe > this is not thread-safe, because readdir() does not need > to be re-entrant; we should use readdir_r where available > to get a thread-safe version. > > Comments?
AFAIK readdir is only unsafe when multiple threads use the same DIR* at the same time. The spec[1] seems to agree with me. It seems to me that this means the implementation of listdir in posixmodule.c doesn't need to be changed. Ronald [1] : http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/ readdir.html > > Regards, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ > ronaldoussoren%40mac.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
