[Python-Dev] Threading idea -- exposing a global thread lock

[Guido van Rossum]

On 3/14/06, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 02:21 PM 3/14/2006 -0500, Tim Peters wrote:
> >The common meaning is:
> >
> >     a section of code such that, once a thread enters it, all other
> >     threads are blocked from entering the section for the duration
>
> That doesn't seem like a very useful definition, since it describes any
> piece of code that's protected by a statically-determined mutex.  But you
> clearly have more experience in this than I.

Trust Tim. That's what "critical section" means in most places. And
yes, indeed, a static mutex is the obvious way to implement it.

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