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From: Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: threading
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 16:32:53 +0000 (UTC)
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Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com> wrote:
 
> 3. It is nice to be able to abort a read or write that hangs (for whatever
> reason). Killing a thread with pthread_cancel or TerminateThread is not
> recommended.

While "graceful timeout" is easy to do on Unix, using fcntl.fcntl or
signal.alarm, on Windows it requires overlapped I/O. This means the normal
Python file objects cannot be used for this purpose on Windows.

Sturla