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Author rhettinger
Recipients Trundle, abacabadabacaba, benhoyt, christian.heimes, eric.araujo, ethan.furman, giampaolo.rodola, gregory.p.smith, josh.r, loewis, nailor, ncoghlan, neologix, nvetoshkin, pitrou, rhettinger, socketpair, terry.reedy, tim.golden, torsten, twouters, vstinner
Date 2014-06-26.16:34:29
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I'm with Martin and the other respondents who think this shouldn't be done.

Without compelling timings, the smacks of feature creep.  The platform specific issues may create an on-going maintenance problem.  The feature itself is prone to misuse, leaving hard-to-find race condition bugs in its wake.
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2014-06-26 16:34:29rhettingersetrecipients: + rhettinger, loewis, twouters, terry.reedy, gregory.p.smith, ncoghlan, pitrou, vstinner, giampaolo.rodola, christian.heimes, tim.golden, eric.araujo, Trundle, benhoyt, torsten, nvetoshkin, neologix, abacabadabacaba, ethan.furman, nailor, socketpair, josh.r
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