is time.sleep a thread safe function?

[Aahz]

In article <c775a687.0203121547.396ba8a8 at posting.google.com>,
Zihong Lu <zlu at extremenetworks.com> wrote:
>
>Recently, we have seen some weird behaviors in our python application
>in Solaris 2.6, 2.7,and 2.8 platform.  The application is a web based
>server, that uses threads heavily.  It runs fine in Linux and win32
>platforms, but in Solaris, it stopped accepting after ran for couple
>of hours.  One of our guesses is that the time.sleep() used through
>out our application is not thread safe.  Can any one please help us
>eliminate/confirm this factor?  Thanks.

I'd be extremely surprised if time.sleep() were a factor, because it's
implemented using select() on platforms that have it (which probably
includes Solaris).
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