Thread problems

[Aahz]

In article <b9c2d1$j7a$1 at pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
Tomek  <rtomek at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>I am running program called aria, fully written in python, under Python 
>2.2.2 on Redhat 9.0 on dual P4 2.4 GHz.
>
>The program has a nasty bug, whereby calling a .start() method of a
>Thread subclass does not execute the run() method every single time (as
>it is specified by the python api). The failure rate on my computer to
>execute the run() is of around 10%. Interestingly, the program failes
>to run the method at different points every single time even though I
>give it the same input.  I looked at the source code of the program,
>but the class that inherits Thread looks very normal with only run()
>method overloaded.

How do you know the run() method isn't getting called?  If you are
accurate about that, it pretty much has to be a gcc or RH9 bug; try
running your program with a different OS/compiler combo (or at least
recompile with optiizations turned off).
-- 
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