[issue14976] queue.Queue() is not reentrant, so signals and GC can cause deadlocks

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

Le 05/09/2017 à 23:21, Gregory P. Smith a écrit :
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> FYI - here is an appropriately licensed (WTFPL) very simple lock-free queue implemented in C

Looks like it uses busy-waiting inside its get() equivalent.
Also we would need a portable version of the atomic instructions used
there (e.g. __sync_bool_compare_and_swap) :-)

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