how do I get solaris thread fixes from 2.2b1 into 2.1?

[Anthony Baxter]

If you can point out the area of fixage, I can look at whether it's
possible to get these into 2.1.2...

Anthony

>>> Tony McDonald wrote
> Hi,
> Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get the Solaris thread fixes 
> that are in python 2.2b1 into a copy of python 2.1 I have?
> 
> The reason is that it appears there is some interaction between python 
> and zope under solaris that makes zope behave as a single threaded 
> server. Certainly, if a long running web request is set off, you can't 
> select any other links on the server until the first request has 
> finished.
> 
> A thread on the yahoo groups archive gives some context;
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zope/message/74484
> 
> The latest version of python (2.2b1) has a fix that sorts out some 
> problems in threading with Solaris.
> 
> The zope guys have said that zope is not currently compatible with 
> python 2.2 (understandable - python 2.2 is a beta after all!), so it 
> seems that what I need to do is to extract the fixed threads code from 
> 2.2b1 and retrofit them into my 2.1 installation.
> 
> So, is there anyone out there that can give me a hint as to what I need 
> to do?
> 
> many thanks for any hints on this one...
> 
> tone.
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