[Spread-users] Spread python module

[Jonathan Stanton]

I agree with this statement of the problem and we will be adding the new
disconnect semantics soon. I just want to make two comments about the
threaded client discusssion.

Is the Python module is linking with libsp or libtsp (the regular or
threadsafe Spread C-library) I'm guessing it is the regular libsp since you
do your own locking.

I can understand just removing the lock which causes the deadlock, but
because the lock removal can cause 'unexplainable' behavior with
connections being reused inappropriately, it seems like a documeted
deadlock is safer (since there is a workaround for the deadlock by using
select) Then when the spread library is fixed, a new release of the Python
module could relax the lock to regain the lost concurrency and negate teh
deadlock possibility. It is certainly your call that just seemed safer to
me.

Thanks,

Jonathan

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Jonathan R. Stanton         jonathan at cs.jhu.edu
Dept. of Computer Science   
Johns Hopkins University    
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