On 3/14/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 02:21 PM 3/14/2006 -0500, Tim Peters wrote: > >The common meaning is: > > > > a section of code such that, once a thread enters it, all other > > threads are blocked from entering the section for the duration > > That doesn't seem like a very useful definition, since it describes any > piece of code that's protected by a statically-determined mutex. But you > clearly have more experience in this than I.
Trust Tim. That's what "critical section" means in most places. And yes, indeed, a static mutex is the obvious way to implement it. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
