> On 5 Jun 2020, at 16:18, Vinay Sharma via Python-ideas 
> <python-ideas@python.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Python has integrated shared memory into standard library starting from 3.8 
> (https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.html 
> <https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.html>), 
> which provides a user friendly API to access shared memory across unrelated 
> processes using names. But, there are no synchronisation mechanisms present 
> in the standard library to prevent race conditions when shared memory is 
> accessed across unrelated processes.
> 
> I had earlier created an enhancement issue 
> <https://bugs.python.org/issue38035> at bugs.python.org 
> <http://bug.python.org/>, which contains more detailed discussion on the 
> same. I am posting this here after a suggestion from a Python contributor.
> 
> Feedback on the same will be very helpful.

What you are asking for it the ability to open a named semaphores with the 
limitation of the current implementation that the semaphores must can only be 
shared with child processes?

Please confirm that I have understood.

If that is it sounds like a reasonable request to me.

Barry



> _______________________________________________
> Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org
> To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/
> Message archived at 
> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/X4AKFFMYEKW6GFOUMXMOJ2OBINNY2Q6L/
> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/

_______________________________________________
Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org
To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org
https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/
Message archived at 
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/27WYM7PRMWXGDBL2TPKX4WCOIBU3XWHR/
Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/

Reply via email to