On Dec 29, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:24:32 +0100
>> "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
I don't have a good suggestion (or a computer with a keyboard
anywhere near me) right now, but making a migration
On Dec 29, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> I don't have a good suggestion (or a computer with a keyboard
>> anywhere near me) right now, but making a migration/fallback to SYSV
>> style semaphores a release blocker seems like a mistake to me.
>
> And indeed, I don't propose to make t
On Dec 29, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> Hi all, What Victor says above is correct, although I wasn't aware
>> that POSIX IPC under FreeBSD 7.2 was still having problems. Prior to
>> 7.2 it was broken but 7.2 worked OK in my limited testing. In any
>> case, the sysv_ipc module is m
On Dec 29, 2010, at 2:14 PM, R. David Murray wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:58:55 -0500, Jesse Noller wrote:
>> The concurrent.futures tests should (like the multiprocessing test
>> suite) detect the lack of support and skip the tests on the broken
>> platforms. I'm sort of surprised FreeBSD su
r SysV).
>
> There is a third party module which looks complete and stable:
> http://semanchuk.com/philip/sysv_ipc/
>
> It is released under the BSD license. It supports semaphores, but also
> shared memory and message queues. We don't need all of those, semaphores
> wo
