[Python-Dev] Issue #10348: concurrent.futures doesn't work on BSD

[Georg Brandl]

Am 30.12.2010 19:17, schrieb "Martin v. Löwis":
>> 1. Does it still fail on FreeBSD 7.3+?
> 
> Yes, it still fails. The limits (30 semaphores) haven't
> changed. It also remains untunable.
> 
>> 2. Why is the semaphore limit so low in the first place?
> 
> I don't know - (Free)BSD is in the tradition of disliking
> SysV inventions, and POSIX inventions unless they originate from
> FreeBSD. This is polemics, of course :-)

BTW - can anyone contribute data points from other *BSDs?

Georg