Threading madness

[Stephan Diehl]

Lane LiaBraaten wrote:

> I am developing a GUI that uses multiple threading.Threads, and
> Queue.Queues for communicating between the threads, and threading.Timers
> for checking the queues.
> 
> Everything works well (runs to completion and exits) on my RedHat7.3
> machine, but it doesn't work (hangs like some thread or queue is
> blocking)on RH9. However, when I ssh into the RH9 box from my RH7.3 box,
> the app runs fine (on my RH7.3 screen).

Apparently, RedHat 9.0 uses new threading model.
>From what I've seen on several posts, there is a new environment variable
that forces the old threading behaviour:
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5

With that, you should be able to do a google search on the problem and see,
if this is related to your problem (I really have no idea if there is a
relation)

Stephan