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| Date | 2014-05-30 13:59 -0700 |
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| From | Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> |
| Subject | Re: daemon thread cleanup approach |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.10499.1401486404.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On 05/30/2014 01:47 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: > > Don't use daemon threads, they are inherently un-thread-safe: any > global access you do anywhere inside a daemon thread can fail, because > daemon threads are still potentially run during interpreter shutdown, > when globals are being deleted from every module. Most functions you > might call are not safe in a daemon thread at shutdown. Given the use-case (must shut down, cannot risk a hung process, orphan files be damned) I don't think having a daemon thread die because it raised an exception trying to access a missing global is a big deal. -- ~Ethan~
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daemon thread cleanup approach Carl Banks <pavlovevidence@gmail.com> - 2014-05-28 18:20 -0700
Re: daemon thread cleanup approach Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2014-05-28 22:51 -0700
Re: daemon thread cleanup approach Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-05-29 16:07 +1000
Re: daemon thread cleanup approach Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-29 18:15 +1000
Re: daemon thread cleanup approach Carl Banks <pavlovevidence@gmail.com> - 2014-05-29 12:40 -0700
Re: daemon thread cleanup approach Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2014-05-30 13:47 -0700
Re: daemon thread cleanup approach Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-05-30 13:59 -0700
Re: daemon thread cleanup approach Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2014-05-30 14:58 -0700
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