[Python-Dev] New canonical location for PEPs

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:06:44 -0500


>>>>> "MvL" == Martin v Loewis <martin@v.loewis.de> writes:

    MvL> Every time I tried to setup such a scheme, I found that it
    MvL> would deadlock: while the loginfo code runs, the committer
    MvL> still holds the lock. Then, the trigger would initiate code
    MvL> on the remote machine, which in turn tries a CVS update. That
    MvL> will then wait for the lock.

    MvL> How do you solve this problem?

syncmail has the same problem; it solves it by forking() a child
process which waits a second or two.  Sucks, but I know of no other
way.

-Barry