[Python-Dev] Re: threading and forking and 2.0 (patch #101226)

[David Ascher]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> (4) MORE WORK: (a) The PyThread API also defines semaphores, which may
> have a similar problem.  But I'm not aware of any use of these (I'm
> not quite sure why semaphore support was added), so I haven't patched
> these. 

IIRC, we had a discussion a while back about semaphore support in the
PyThread API and agreed that they were not implemented on enough platforms
to be a useful part of the PyThread API.  I can't find it right now, alas.

--david