[Python-Dev] Patch 595601

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:10:50 -0500


    Tim>     http://www.python.org/sf/595601

    Tim> has been in limbo a long time.  Looks like it popped up in real
    Tim> life, in Zope last week.

    Tim> Quickie: if you let run this long enough, it will die with a
    Tim> segfault (and under any version of Python):

    ...

Isn't this a case of "so don't do that"?  I've never encountered this
before, but then I don't close files in one thread while another holds a
reference.

Would it be reasonable to raise an error or warning if a file's close()
method was called when the reference count was greater than 1?

Skip