Problems with gencache on Windows NT

[Geoff Talvola]

At 12:26 PM 5/10/01 -0400, Geoff Talvola wrote:

>Actually, I just today discovered a gotcha with using EnsureDispatch.  It 
>appears to be non-thread-safe.  If multiple threads are simultaneously 
>trying to EnsureDispatch, I get problems.
>
>My solution for now is to just use EnsureModule at import time, but that 
>obviously defeats the purpose of EnsureDispatch.
>
>So it would be nice if EnsureDispatch could be made thread-safe.  Another 
>solution would be to allow EnsureModule to be passed in a nice string like 
>"Scripting.Dictionary" instead of the GUID, to make it nicer to use.

I experimented a bit with this, and it turns out that an easy way to make 
both EnsureDispatch and EnsureModule thread-safe is to simply wrap the 
entire contents of EnsureModule with a lock.  Mark, any chance this fix 
could be made in gencache.py?  I made this change in my copy of gencache.py 
and it fixed my problem:

import threading
_ensureModuleLock = threading.Lock()
def EnsureModule(...):
     _ensureModuleLock.acquire()
     try:
         # do the EnsureModule thing here...
     finally:
         _ensureModuleLock.release()




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- Geoff Talvola
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