[openstack-dev] [oslo] Issues with POSIX semaphores and other locks in lockutils

Julien Danjou julien at danjou.info
Thu Aug 21 09:38:16 UTC 2014


On Wed, Aug 20 2014, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote:

> This may be slightly off-topic but it is worth mentioning that the use of threading.Lock[1]
> which was included to make the locks thread safe seems to be leading to a deadlock in eventlet[2].
> It seems like we have rewritten this too many times in order to fix minor pain points and are
> adding risk to a very important component of the system.

Indeed it looks slightly off-topic as it actually looks like more the
never ending nightmare of eventlet monkey patching we're trying to get
rid off… :(

-- 
Julien Danjou
# Free Software hacker
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