Fork, Threading, and Select madness. Please help!

[Gordon McMillan]

Jesse D. Sightler wrote:

> Thanks for your thoughtful reply.  As it turned out, threading
> wasn't nearly as bad a solution as I thought it might be<0.5wink>. 
> I just downloaded Python 1.52 and recompiled with "./configure
> --with-threads" and everything worked out nicely on the FreeBSD box
> that my webserver uses.  

You're welcome. Wish all my advice came out that well!
 
> Of course, doing this on my linux box resulted in something that
> causes my kernel to blow up in flames a few hours after running the
> Python interpretter with any threaded program.  But that's ok, at
> least it works with my ISP.

If you compiled with gcc, you might try egcs. A recent thread on 
Linux threading problems arrived at that fix, but I'm not sure it's 
the same problem.

I'd never encountered the problem, but rebuilt with egcs anyway.


- Gordon