[Python-Dev] Pythreads and BSD descendants

[Paul Colomiets]

Cameron Laird wrote:
> Folklore that I remember so unreliably I avoid trying to repeat it here
> held that Python threading had problems on BSD and allied Unixes.  What's
> the status of this?  I suspect the answer is, "Everything works, and the
> only real problem ever was that *signals* have different semantics under
> Linux and *BSD."  Anyone who can answer explicitly, though, would repre-
> sent a help to me.
>   
I use Python with multithreading applications on FreeBSD
for several years, and really single problem I've discovered
is that default stack size for new threads is small for the
default recursion limit. It can be easily fixed in Python 2.5.

Apart from that everything works OK for me.