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Author	pitrou
Recipients	Joe.Julian, benjamin.peterson, dmick, doko, neologix, pitrou, vstinner
Date	2014-11-20.09:49:52
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Message-id	<1416476992.97.0.274099052546.issue21963@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Thanks for the explanation. > I confess I don't fully understand the change in 7741d0dd66ca, but it > does seem to have the side effect of not actually allowing exit while > there are outstanding daemon threads not hitting Python. That's a bit weird, as that change doesn't introduce any wait. Are you sure there isn't something else happening, e.g. a lock is owned by the daemon thread and a non-daemon thread tries to acquire it?

Thanks for the explanation.

> I confess I don't fully understand the change in 7741d0dd66ca, but it 
> does seem to have the side effect of not actually allowing exit while 
> there are outstanding daemon threads not hitting Python.

That's a bit weird, as that change doesn't introduce any wait. Are you sure there isn't something else happening, e.g. a lock is owned by the daemon thread and a non-daemon thread tries to acquire it?

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