using threads with python and winnt

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <000801bf670c$dab7a480$632d153f at tim>,
Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:
>
>There's an exceedingly rare timing hole in the released 1.5.2 Python (fixed
>in the CVS version) that had been there for years, showing up in rare
>reports under extremely high rates of thread death and only on top-end
>multiprocessor systems.

We're still using 1.5.1 (no comments, please! we're supposed to finally
upgrade this week), and I was wondering if you could explain what the
symptom of this bug is, because we've seen a couple of recent cases
where a heavily threaded app that creates hundreds of single-shot
threads dies with a thread error.

(We're *also* fixing it to use a thread pool, but I'd still like to know
what our chances are of hitting this with the stock 1.5.2)
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