Asyncore select statement problem

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Friday 19/1/2007 14:42, JamesHoward wrote:

>Thank you for the responses.  I have learned considerably more about
>how Asyncore works because of it.
>
>The problem that I see is that Asyncore's poll function does not seem
>to be thread safe.  From what I can tell, I am calling
>dispatcher.close() properly and the dispatchers are removed from
>asyncore's global map (all except the server itself).  However, it
>seems like the error happens when the poll function gets the file
>descriptors to run select on and then the thread ticks and removes them
>from the global map.  After this the select call is made, but the file
>descriptors are not valid anymore.
>
>I guess I have two questions as a result.  First, is this a problem
>that anyone else has had and second is there a fix for it?  I have
>tried looking for Asyncore thread safe topics in Google, but without
>much luck.  If needed I think making the poll function atomic in the
>asyncore module might fix this problem, but I wanted to see what other
>people thought first.

Usually asyncore is used with only one thread - that's one of the 
reasons of using it btw. You can spawn other working threads, but 
they don't usually interact with the networking stuff directly.


-- 
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 


	

	
		
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