Hi, I wrote a quick module for spawning a subprocess and run the
function, just as an excercise, after I read your post...
It will spawn a subprocess, then pass the serialized return values to
the parent. So, if you want to do:
lala = os.listdir(".")
you do
lala = fmg(os.listdir, ".")
This w
Hello,
first, I believe listdir is implemented so as to block other threads
because underlying C functions are *not* thread safe ! So if you try
reading two directories in two different threads you may end up with
really strange things happening !
For your process problem, if you want to have ful
Hello List,
I try to read large directories off network shares (samba3,NT) with
os.listdir(). The listdir() takes up to 5 minutes and blocks the rest of
the program (gui refreshes, ...)
The idea now is to put the listdir call into a separate thread so the
program can go on doing stuff (see below
