[issue3578] 'dictionary changed size' error in test_multiprocessing

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

Le lundi 18 août 2008 à 19:42 +0000, Ismail Donmez a écrit :
> Ismail Donmez <ismail at namtrac.org> added the comment:
> 
> Ah cool, we might be at the end of multiprocessing problems then I guess 
> :-)

Well, not really, it should be diagnosed why the dictionary mutates in
the first place. This dictionary is apparently processed in a child
process just after a fork() occurred, so logically there shouldn't be
several threads running.
Unless processing the dictionary itself can create some new threads?

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