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Excerpts from Legacy, Allain's message of 2017-05-15 19:20:46 +0000:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Doug Hellmann [mailto:doug at doughellmann.com]
> > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 2:55 PM
> <...>
> > 
> > Excerpts from Legacy, Allain's message of 2017-05-15 18:35:58 +0000:
> > > import eventlet
> > > eventlet.monkey_patch
> > 
> > That's not calling monkey_patch -- there are no '()'. Is that a typo?
> 
> Yes, sorry, that was a typo when I put it in to the email.  It did have () 
> at the end.
> 
> > 
> > lock() claims to work differently when monkey_patch() has been called.
> > Without doing the monkey patching, I would expect the thread to have to
> > explicitly yield control.
> > 
> > Did you see the problem you describe in production code, or just in this
> > sample program?
> 
> We see this in production code.   I included the example to boil this down to 
> a simple enough scenario to be understood in this forum without the 
> distraction of superfluous code. 
> 

OK. I think from the Oslo team's perspective, this is likely to be
considered a bug in the application. The concurrency library is not
aware that it is running in an eventlet thread, so it relies on the
application to call the monkey patching function to inject the right
sort of lock class.  If that was done in the wrong order, or not
at all, that would cause this issue.

The next step is to look at which application had the problem, and under
what circumstances. Can you provide more detail there?

Doug