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Title: Thread.is_alive while running Process.is_alive causes either premature termination or never-terminating.
Type: behavior Stage: resolved
Components: Versions: Python 3.4, Python 2.7
process
Status: closed Resolution: not a bug
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: Nosy List: Hexorg, iritkatriel
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2018-12-05 12:55 by Hexorg, last changed 2022-04-11 14:59 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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bug_test.py Hexorg, 2018-12-05 12:55
Messages (2)
msg331106 - (view) Author: Stan (Hexorg) Date: 2018-12-05 12:55
Checking if thread.is_alive() while thread is checking on Process.is_alive() seemingly causes undefined behavior. 

The attached POC is expected to print "ThreadN.data == 1999" for N in range(0, 20) with some repeats. However the integers are spread all over the place. Moreover sometimes one or more of the threads never terminate resulting in technically infinite amount of "ThreadN.data == ###" prints. 

In python2.7.15 I never observed a thread lock (only early terminations), but in python3.4.8 I did.

You may have to adjust max_count variable to have higher success rate of thread locking. I got about 40% chance of `python3 bug_test.py` never finishing on an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4610M CPU @ 3.00GHz
msg407601 - (view) Author: Irit Katriel (iritkatriel) * (Python committer) Date: 2021-12-03 21:02
Use this queue for multithreaded applications: https://docs.python.org/3/library/queue.html


Mixing multiprocessing with multithreading often doesn't work.
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:59:08adminsetgithub: 79600
2021-12-03 21:02:37iritkatrielsetstatus: open -> closed

nosy: + iritkatriel
messages: + msg407601

resolution: not a bug
stage: resolved
2018-12-05 12:55:10Hexorgcreate