re-entrancy question
Tim Golden
tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk
Tue Feb 8 07:57:44 EST 2005
| Tim Golden <tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk> wrote:
|
| > No doubt there are more pertinent answers, but unless this is
| > a learning exercise, you'd be better off investigating Pyro:
| > http://pyro.sf.net
|
| AFAIK pyro is just a RPC implementation for python whereas
| Twisted is a
| completely different beast that happens to have its own implementation
| of RPC.
|
| How would the OP be better investigating something different, that he
| probably doesn't even need?
|
| Your comment would be pertinent only if it considered
| Perspective Broker
| against pyro, and I admit I don't know how they compare.
Here's the original post, quoted in its entirety:
<quote>
I have a program that instantiates some objects and runs a main loop.
Before the main loop starts, I create a thread that listens to TCP
connections on a port. If any connections are made, and depending on
the data, I call methods on some of those objects.
I am worried that calling methods on objects from outside the main loop,
but that are also operated on in the main loop, could cause problems.
My questions:
1) is this safe?
2) what kind of problems could occur?
3) how do I safely handle this?
</quote>
Now *where* is there any mention of Twisted, either in the original
post or in my reply? As I read it, the OP is doing something which
creates local objects (instances, whatever) and has them available
remotely. He's then -- justifiably -- concerned about possible
re-entrancy if more than one outside agent makes a connection on
his TCP port.
It seemed to me that this was -- approximately -- what Pyro does:
you created objects locally and listen on a TCP port for incoming
requests. Since Pyro's author has already solved a number of the
problems associated with doing this kind of thing, I thought it
might be helpful to point this out.
Tim
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