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Author loewis
Recipients kristjan.jonsson, loewis, ronaldoussoren
Date 2010-04-15.20:32:58
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> On pthreads plaforms, if the posix_sem functions aren't available
> (when _POSIX_SEMAPHORES isn't defined), the python lock is
> implemented with a mutex and a condition variable.  This appears to
> be the case on Mac OS X, for example. The problem is that this lock
> does not provide fairness to threads trying to acquire it. 

Why do you think condition variables don't provide fairness?
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Date User Action Args
2010-04-15 20:33:00loewissetrecipients: + loewis, ronaldoussoren, kristjan.jonsson
2010-04-15 20:32:58loewislinkissue8410 messages
2010-04-15 20:32:58loewiscreate